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Program Catalog
lifelong learning opportunities
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Introduction to Social Psychology
Climate Action with Family and Friends
Special Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Antibiotics: Probing the Biology of Life and Death
Communication, Environment, Science, and Health
Change-making by Design
Sports Psychology
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Early Childhood
Honey Bees: Their Intriguing Biology and Interactions with Humans and More
A Philosopher's Guide to the Galaxy: Philosophy & Science Fiction
Israel on the Edge
Israeli Politics
Introduction to Human Development
Persuasion and Social Influence
Data Analytics Certificate
Data analytics is among today's fastest-growing and highest-paid professions as organizations increasingly rely on data to drive strategic business decisions.
Whether you are gathering data or analyzing it to make recommendations, this certificate is designed to provide functional literacy in critical business analytics. The courses are accessible to learners with fundamental statistical background, yet also structured to provide benefit to analysts who interface directly with raw data. You'll learn statistical and scientific methods for data analysis through hands-on exercises and video instruction from Cornell University faculty expert Chris Anderson, preparing you to make sound, evidence-based decisions that drive business performance in any function.
Students with familiarity in statistics and excel will be most successful in this program.
For the best experience in this program it is strongly recommended to take these courses in the order that they appear.
Mechanics of Engineering Materials
Mechanics of deformable bodies and a reinforcement of the concept of "simple engineering elements" for mechanical analysis associated with design. There is an introduction to the broad range of properties and behaviors of engineering materials as they relate to mechanical performance. Emphasis is placed on general states of stress and strain, on elasticity and combined loading effects. Failure criteria including yielding, fracture and fatigue are developed.
Students enroll in MAE 3270.
Foodservice Management Essentials
This course in an introduction to the principles of foodservice operations management, beginning with an overview of the foodservice industry at large. We first focus on major industry segments, business practices, and trends. More consideration is subsequently given to the components of the foodservice system: creating useful financial statements, elements/use of a business plan, marketing, menu design/planning, facilities/production, human resource issues, purchasing/controls, and quality assurance. This fundamental understanding of operations and basic managerial responsibilities will set the stage for further exploration of these issues in subsequent SHA courses.
Students enroll in HADM 3365.
Intrapreneurship Certificate
Entrepreneurship isn't just for start-ups; it has become an essential cultural value for any successful organization. This certificate program will help you transform your organizational culture by developing entrepreneurial skills in your workforce that will help your people solve problems from a new perspective, formulate new business models, and cultivate a growth mindset.
Throughout the courses, you'll develop as a leader and intrapreneur by utilizing powerful critical thinking, systems thinking, and change management techniques that will ultimately help your established organization gain the same velocity, agility, and ability to innovate that often gives startups a distinct (and sometimes disruptive) competitive advantage.
What Makes us Human? An Existential Journey amidst Crisis
"What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves," wrote Albert Camus in The Plague. Now is our time to realize our humanity: find out what sets us apart, and brings us together, as humans, and live up to it. This course is an existential odyssey into the human condition and politics. Are we truly different from animals and machines? What does it mean to ""be yourself?"" What's the difference between freedom and liberty? Should we pursue happiness? Why do we yield to fear and anxiety? Is the search for meaning meaningless? Do we live in a post-truth era?
Students enroll in GOVT 3686.
Diversity and Inclusion for HR Certificate
ARCH 4102: Design VIII
Advanced programs in architectural design, with options including, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.
Students enroll in ARCH 4102.
Business Strategy Certificate
Environmental Education & Community Engagement
The course materials, webinars, and interaction with each other, course participants will explore to engage community members in stewardship and environmental decision-making and action as part of environmental education. During this 4-week course, you will:
Explore and create new ideas for community engagement goals and strategies by synthesizing practical experiences and theoretical frameworks,
Exchange practical ideas for community engagement with peers and receive feedback from the instructors, and
Develop a plan for community engagement in your own educational program.?
The final project is creating a 1-page community engagement plan for your organization or coming up with new ideas for community engagement in environmental education, stewardship, and advocacy. Selected final projects will become part of an ebook that will be featured on the Civic Ecology Lab website and made available to other environmental educators.
This course is largely asynchronous. All materials are provided on the EdX Edge online learning platform. Course participants will learn from video lectures, readings, discussion posts, and case studies. The course also includes live/recorded webinars with experts in community engagement. On average, coursework takes about 5 hours per week each of 4 weeks (total 20 professional development hours).
Lectures in Genetics and Genomics
General introduction to the fundamental principles of genetics in eukaryotes and bacteria. Topics include gene transmission, linkage, recombination, structure, mutations, and manipulation, as well as analysis of genomes in individuals and populations.
Students enroll in BIOMG 2800.
Words as Weapons: Political Vocabulary, Mass Media and the Evolution of Political Consciousness
This course examines the evolution of language as a tool of political power, focusing upon the ongoing struggles to shape American political consciousness as well as the role of mass media in reflecting and influencing those struggles.
Students enroll in HIST 2526.
Operations Management Certificate
This certificate program provides you with the tools to analyze and improve the operational performance of any organization. Courses focus on key concepts in four essential areas of operations management: process analysis, service operations, quality management, and inventory management. You will begin by implementing process analysis tools to create a flow diagram and explore performance measures that can be used to measure the effectiveness of current processes within an organization. Next, you'll have the opportunity to practice using statistical analysis to evaluate the efficiency of service operations in a variety of contexts, including in person and virtual. You will also be introduced to process control as a tool for evaluating and improving the quality control of systems and processes. Finally, you will look at different methods for tracking inventory and implementing strategies to improve business performance. Upon completing this program, you will possess the tools and skills to successfully manage and optimize operations in your industry.
Senior Living Management Certificate
The number of adults 65 and over is growing fast; it's an exciting time for those interested in careers serving seniors.
How can you be sure you're meeting the needs of seniors and providing a superior experience?
In this certificate program, you'll explore best practices for service excellence at senior living facilities. Through examination of case studies and industry regulations, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the current senior living landscape. You'll have the opportunity to utilize the principles of environmental psychology to plan senior living facilities that support health and wellness through informed design. You'll implement the PPO (product, people, and operational conditions) framework to assess the needs of an organization and apply industry trends to create food service operations that align with the needs of a senior living facility. Throughout the courses, you'll explore how process thinking can improve your senior living facility by creating a process flow document and formalizing an action plan for decision-making. Finally, you will practice assessing the quality of a senior living organization, identifying areas for improvement through research and applying quality management approaches.
Introduction to the Global Study of Law
This four-part course is designed to introduce advanced prelaw students to key topics in the study and practice of law, within a global context. Its units are organized around four sets of issues. First, how do U.S. law and legal institutions relate to legal cultures from around the world; and how does one analyze different national and international legal systems from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective? Second, what is the role of constitutional law and principles both within the U.S. and globally? Third, what are the main challenges confronting international human rights, including their ability to protect traditionally disadvantaged groups such as women? And fourth, what is involved in the practice of transnational business law; what structures of law regulate international corporate behavior? Taught entirely by faculty of Cornell Law School, this course will prepare prelaw students for success in law school.
Students enroll in LAW 4031.
Human Resources Management Certificate
A Global Approach to Modern Chinese History
This course surveys modern Chinese history from a global perspective starting from the 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century. It is a lecture and discussion course that aims to help the students develop a better understanding of the major events that have, for better or worse, shaped China and made it what it is today.
Students enroll in HIST 1591.
Contract Administration
The contract lies at the center of day-to-day union practice. The interpretation and enforcement of contract language depends on the union representative. How can union leaders, stewards, and rank and file members ensure that the contract is honored and not circumvented? This course explores issues that union reps experience on an everyday basis. Students will discuss how to resolve problems that are contract-based by effectively utilizing grievance procedures. Additionally, class participants will learn how to creatively harness the energy of union members themselves to build the local union and address problems that might arise in the workplace.
Key Topics
Grievance Procedures: First Moves, Presenting the Grievance Conflict Resolution at the Workplace Health and Safety Issues Workplace and the LawApproach and Features
The Union Steward's Complete Guide, 2nd Edition, Edited by David Prosten is the required text. The Complete Guide is used for background information and to provide some structure to the class. Each participant will be required to discuss lessons learned from a chapter of their choosing and share with class. The primary emphasis is on skill building through scenarios and role plays not reading the entire textbook. You may purchase the book using this link (The Union Steward's Complete Guide, 2nd edition, Updated). When ordering this book for the class use BFLO to receive a 20% discount!
How Will You Benefit?
This course provides an opportunity to practice and improve your bargaining skills with students from across the country in various public sector, private sector and building trades environments. Your organization will benefit from learning lessons in a safe environment instead of at the bargaining table affecting the entire workplace.
This course is a part of the Cornell ILR Online Labor Studies Program and satisfies the Core Requirement for Collective Bargaining/Contract Administration. Upon completion you will earn 3.0 credits that can be used towards a Certificate of Labor Studies or an Advanced Certificate of Labor Studies.
Physics III: Oscillations, Waves and Quantum Physics
For majors in engineering (including biological, biomedical, and biomolecular engineering), computer science, physics, earth and atmospheric science, and other physical and biological sciences who wish to understand the oscillation, wave, and quantum phenomena behind much of modern technology and scientific/medical instrumentation.
Students enroll in PHYS 2214.
The United States stands alone among Western, industrialized countries with its persistently high rates of incarceration, long sentences, and continued use of the death penalty. This "American exceptionalism" -- the turn to mass incarceration -- has been fostered by the use of sharply-delineated categories that define vast numbers of people as outlaws and others as law-abiding. These categories that are based on ideas of personal responsibility and assumptions about race are modified somewhat by a liberal commitment to human rights. Our purpose in this course is to understand how such ideas have taken root and to locate the consequences of these ideas for policy and practice.
Students enroll in GOVT 3141 or AMST 3141.
Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Covers static, quasi-static, and dynamic electromagnetic fields and waves. Topics include Maxwell's equations (integral and differential forms), fields of charge and current distributions, boundary conditions, fields near conductors, method of images, material polarization and dielectrics; energy, work, and power in electromagnetic systems; wave propagation and polarization, waves in media (dielectrics, conductors, and anisotropic materials); reflection, transmission, and refraction at med
Students enroll in ECE 3030.
ARCH 2101: Design III
Students develop an understanding of context and precedent in the construction of architectural form, and are introduced to contextual and programmatic densities in addition to circulatory, spatial, and organizational strategies in the design process.
Students enroll in ARCH 2101.
Engineering Applications of Operations Research
An introduction to the problems and methods of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering focusing on problem areas (including inventory, network design, and resource allocation), the situations in which these problems arise, and several standard solution techniques. In the computational laboratory, students encounter problem simulations and use some standard commercial software packages.
Students enroll in ENGRI 1101.
Spreadsheet Modeling for Non-Dyson Majors
This course, while Excel based, will emphasize applied decision making in the business world. This introductory course is not simply a "how to use Excel" course, rather it covers the theory behind decision making and applying analytic tools like Excel to various business scenarios. Understanding the value of such skills, this course will introduce students to methods used to navigate tools and applications, or typical business scenarios where such capabilities can be leveraged in business.
Students enroll in AEM 2011.
ARCH 5100: Elective Design Studio
Non sequence design studio for students who are not architecture majors at Cornell and for department students taking design studio for non-sequence credit.
Students enroll in ARCH 5100.
Integrating Inquiry for Educators: Developing Student Science Practices
Explore the process of inquiry and investigation with your students through outdoor observations and citizen science. Using BirdSleuth K-12's popular Investigating Evidence curriculum, this self-paced online course from Bird Academy features videos, activities, readings, discussion boards, quizzes, and assignments to help you understand and implement inquiry in your program or classroom. Relevant for all K-12 educators including those teaching in after school programs. More info
Choose one:
Online Only: This will provide participants access to all online resources. To complete this course, participants will need to download the electronic version of Investigating Evidence to use as their textbook for the course. All additional readings are available electronically. At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion.
Online with Print: This option will provide participants access to all online and printed resources. Printed resources include Investigating Evidence (spiral-bound, 87 pages), Scientific Investigation poster (17" x 22"), the student publication magazine BirdSleuth Investigator (2 most recent editions), and all relevant readings (87 additional pages). At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion.
Online with CEUs: For those who require Continuing Education Units (CEUs), participants can complete this course using the electronic version of Investigating Evidence as their textbook for the course. All additional readings are available electronically. At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and 2 CEUs from Cornell University.
Full Package: For those who require Continuing Education Units and wish to have all printed resources. This option will provide participants access to all online resources and printed resources. Printed resources include Investigating Evidence (spiral-bound, 87 pages), Scientific Investigation poster (17" x 22"), the student publication magazine BirdSleuth Investigator (2 most recent editions), and all relevant readings (87 additional pages). At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and 2 CEUs from Cornell University.
Digital Transformation Certificate
Digital transformation isn't just for tech startups. It's a critical strategic focus area for today's business leaders — and an initiative necessary for nearly every organization or venture to compete.
In this certificate program, you will learn how to find and produce new, streamlined, and disruptive business ideas through digital auditing and a rapid ideation process. Additionally, you'll have the chance to pitch your ideas and develop a plan to rigorously test and evaluate your opportunity to ensure market suitability. By the time you complete the program, you will have developed a toolkit for the rapid ideation process as well as a strategy to move to the next step in manifesting your digital innovation concepts.
Introduction to Stochastic Processes I
Uses basic concepts and techniques of random processes to construct models for a variety of problems of practical interest. Topics include the Poisson process, Markov chains, renewal theory, models for queuing, and reliability.
Students enroll in ORIE 5510.
The Universe
Identical to ASTRO 1105 except for the addition of the afternoon laboratory that emphasizes mathematical problem-solving. This option is recommended for potential majors in science and engineering.
Students enroll in ASTRO 1107.
Music of the 1960s
Examine how musicians working in such genres as rock, jazz, folk, classical, soul, and experimental music responded and contributed to the major themes of the 1960s.
Students enroll in ASRC 2260.
Hospitality Digital Marketing Certificate
Marketing encompasses the various ways you communicate, differentiate, and reinforce your hospitality brand promise to potential customers. In the hospitality industry, the world of digital marketing is opening doors no one knew existed and driving customer engagement, feedback, and endorsements faster than ever.
Whether you are a marketing professional or have found yourself taking on the marketing responsibility for your organization, this certificate program will prepare you to apply fundamental hospitality marketing concepts and principles, focused on the world of digital marketing, in your organization. In this program, you will investigate the current status of your marketing strategy; assess the different levers that can be adjusted to drive revenue and react to demand; and develop a diverse collection of digital marketing strategies to apply, monitor, and evaluate. Through best practices and industry case studies, you will contextualize these concepts and lay a solid foundation for applying them to your workplace.
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Broad overview of theories, research, and issues in the study of human development during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Focuses on the major biological, cognitive, and social changes during adolescence; the psychosocial issues of adolescence, including identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, achievement, and problems; and the contexts in which adolescent development occurs, particularly families, peer groups, schools, work, and popular culture. Discusses empirical research, theories, case studies of the lives of real adolescents, and, to a lesser degree, public policies.
Students enroll in HD 1170.
Python for Data Science Certificate
Data science is one of today's most in-demand functions — and Python is an essential skill in any data scientist's toolbox. In this program, you will master the ability to analyze and visualize data in meaningful ways using Python to help solve complex business problems. Working with tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, NumPy, and Pandas, you will have the opportunity to analyze real-world datasets to identify patterns and relationships in data. You will gain experience using both built-in and custom-built data types to create expressive and computationally robust data science projects. Finally, you will build predictive machine learning models using Python and scikit-learn.
To be successful in this program, it is recommended that students have some experience in analytics and programming, specifically with creating visualizations in spreadsheets.
The amount of time you spend on these courses will depend on your prior experience. Since these courses are designed for someone with limited exposure to programming, you can expect them to start off with the foundations and then quickly move into more advanced and complex topics.
Design Studio - Redefining Red Hook: Landscapes of Performance and Resilience
Redefining the landscape and waterfront around one of Brooklyn's most architecturally iconic industrial shells, the New York Port Authority Grain Terminal will be the focus of the studio this summer. Located at the base of the Gowanus Canal, between Gowanus and Red Hook, the massive structure looms over the water's edge.
Students enroll in LA 7005.
Introduction To The Economics Of Development
This course is intended as an introduction to the economics of low income countries. It focuses on the policies and constraints to promoting growth and development.
Students enroll in AEM 2350.
Essential Desktop Applications
Provides skills in the use of personal computers that run the Windows operating system. Covers fundamental technical concepts and time-saving techniques for Windows, and Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Emphasizes hands-on experience and development of PC-based solutions and strategies by using examples that address human resource and other practical real-world issues. Students will take the industry recognized Microsoft test to gain certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS).i
Students enroll in ILRHR 2660.
Data Analytics in R Certificate
R is now considered one of the most popular analytics tools in the world. In this certificate program you will develop the skill set necessary to perform key aspects of data science efficiently. The courses cover the application of core analytics concepts in the R programming environment to allow a scalable implementation.
You'll learn techniques for manipulating and visualizing data, describing data through descriptive statistics, and clustering. You'll extend these basic reporting approaches through classification and predictive analytics using traditional parametric models (regression and logistic regression) as well as machine learning techniques. In addition, you'll develop linear, nonlinear, and Monte Carlo decision-making models that will allow you to make more informed decisions.
To be successful in this program, it is recommended that students have a background in predictive and prescriptive data analytics, specifically with optimization, modeling, and Monte Carlo simulations, in addition to a familiarity with programming syntax.
Private Sector Labor Law
This ONLINE course is offered by ILR Extension. This course surveys the major areas of the law as it applies to workers and unions in the private sector. It focuses on the right to organize and the ground rules for collective bargaining and strikes. Students will concentrate on major provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, examining how the NLRB and the Federal Courts have interpreted the national labor laws. 3.0 Credits
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Studies the first and second laws and their consequences for chemical systems. Covers thermodynamic properties of pure fluids, solids, and mixtures; phase and chemical reaction equilibrium; heat effects in batch and flow processes; and power cycles and refrigeration.
Students enroll in CHEME 3130.
Introductory Statistics
Statistics is about understanding the world through data. We are surrounded by data, so there is a lot to understand. Covers data exploration and display, data gathering methods, probability, and statistical inference methods through contingency tables and linear regression. The emphasis is on thinking scientifically, understanding what is commonly done with data (and doing some of it for yourself), and laying a foundation for further study. Students learn to use statistical software and simulation tools to discover fundamental results. They use computers regularly; the test includes both multimedia materials and a software package. This course does not focus on data from any particular discipline, but will use real-world examples from a wide variety of disciplines and current events.
Students enroll in ILRST 2100 or STSCI 2100.
Leadership Essentials Certificate
Systems Engineering
Do you have a hunger to learn? Don't have time to go back to school full-time to earn your master's degree? We can help.
Cornell's College of Engineering, the preeminent engineering school in the Ivy League, is offering a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Systems Engineering via distance learning. This program is ideal for you if you've entered the workforce and want to earn your master's without taking a break in your employment.
As more and more engineers pursue master's level education, the demand for master's programs is increasing and will rise dramatically in the coming years. Many of those prospective master's degree students are engineers who already have professional jobs, and who want to pursue a professional master's program without leaving their employment. For these mature students, part-time study - often based on distance learning - is a necessity and that's where we come in.
Systems engineering is a valuable discipline for master's level study because many engineers from various undergraduate disciplines find that they are deeply involved in designing and implementing complex systems. Master's level study in this area can support their career goals and give them tools for continued improvement of professional skills.
You can be a part of an elite cohort of students. Our students are professionals from companies like:
Applied Materials BAE Systems Boeing Carrier Google L-3 Communications Lockheed Martin U.S. Air ForceCPR Advanced Life Support (ALS)
The CPR: Advanced Life Support (ALS) course picks up where CPR: Basic Life Support (BLS) finishes, covering the bottom half of the RECOVER CPR algorithm. Topics include important monitoring equipment, how to diagnose the ECG arrest rhythm, and about drug therapies and other advanced interventions that can improve the likelihood of a successful CPR attempt. After completing both courses, you'll have an understanding of the entire CPR algorithm. The ALS course is available for 3.0 CE credits in North Carolina.
Academic Writing
Academic writing with an emphasis on improving organization, grammar, vocabulary, and style through the writing and revision of short papers. Frequent individual conferences supplement class work. This course is suitable for students who are still in high school or have just graduated and whose schooling has been in languages other than English.
Students enroll in WRIT 1011.
Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It's Going
Since hip hop first emerged in the South Bronx nearly half a century ago, it has grown into a global movement. Youth around the world not only consume hip hop; they also create their own, adapting hip hop music, texts, dance, and visual culture to local realities. This course traces the ongoing connections between hip hop's roots in the cultural expression of marginalized African American and Latinx youth in the postindustrial urban United States and its contemporary relationship to US popular culture.
Students enroll in MUSIC 2370 or ASRC 2370.
China and the World
Study of the dramatic rise of China through reviewing major developments in contemporary Chinese foreign policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and concentrating more specifically on major developments in Chinese foreign policy during the 1980s and 1990s.
Students enroll in ASIAN 3327, CAPS 3827 or GOVT 3827.
Hospitality Asset Management
Hotel asset managers act on behalf of investors to meet the specific objectives of real estate ownership. Specifically in this course, the focus is on hotel and resort real estate assets. This course provides an overview of the strategies and tactics of real estate asset management and provides insights into the current market and operational challenges. Students will walk through the components of the asset management strategic plan to understand how different analyses influence the sell/hold, brand and operational decisions. Other topics include hotel management agreements, the capital investment decision, and the asset manager's interaction with portfolio managers.
Students enroll in HADM 6520.
Hospitality Strategy Certificate
To achieve sustained success and survive unpredictable economic challenges, hospitality organizations need to set themselves apart from their competitors. That differentiation requires an effective strategy.
In this certificate program, you will carefully examine the key elements in the strategic management process, which consists of two equally important parts: strategy formulation and strategy implementation. You will first investigate the fundamentals of strategy, including what makes a good strategy, how to think like a strategist, and which of your organization's resources and capabilities will lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. Next, you will explore strategy formulation, which involves planning strategies that define where and how your company will compete. More specifically, you will explore the key elements of direction setting and develop a strategic vision and mission. You'll also study business-level and corporate-level strategies to compete and create value.
You will then examine strategy implementation, which focuses on the shorter-term actions and choices intended to carry out the strategic plan. Even if your organization has carefully formulated and articulated its strategy, your organization won't get far without the ability to implement it, so you will determine how to put strategy into action. You will look at how to set priorities and objectives to build a strategy-supporting structure and culture. You will also analyze how to evaluate performance and control actions. Finally, you will delve into the details of action planning and master the tools and concepts needed to develop and lead strategic organizational change. You'll come away from the program better prepared to position your hospitality brand for success in even the most competitive and volatile markets.
For the best experience in this program, it is strongly recommended to take these courses in the order that they appear.
Be a Better Birder Basics 2: Color and Pattern
The second in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Be a Better Birder series, this self-paced course draws directly on the knowledge and expertise of Cornell Lab birders and ornithologists to help you learn bird identification through expert tips and interactive quizzes. Throughout you'll be practicing the key skills of using size and shape to take your birding skills to the next level.
What's Inside:You'll learn how locating key bits of color on a bird speeds identification. Instead of trying to memorize every color and pattern on a bird, you'll learn to do more with less information, focusing on specific body parts that will lead to the right ID. You'll experience the challenges posed by juvenile birds and molting birds, and how you can even be fooled by the lighting. This course features 6 lessons containing 4 videos, 5 interactives, and 8 quizzes. You can choose to earn a printable certificate by passing the final exam.
Completion Time:2 hrs estimated
Fashion Design Management Certificate
Have you ever seen a stunning piece of clothing in a store window or on a runway that took your breath away? Have you ever wanted to be a part of making trendsetting fashion products? Fashion is ready for innovation; the time has never been better for newcomers to disrupt the market as fashion brands seek out inventive new ways to sell products, promote diversity, and emphasize sustainability practices.
Whether your goal is to be a designer, trend forecaster, merchandiser, buyer, or production manager, this certificate program provides an overview of the fashion industry that combines consumer and industry knowledge with business and economics.
The courses in the program cover four major areas of fashion design management: trend forecasting, product line development, production planning, and distribution and marketing. After examining current trends, you will have the opportunity to conceptually design your own six-product fashion line that considers style, silhouette, color, and fabric choices. From there, you will explore the world of production planning and how factories are chosen to manufacture items for fashion brands. Finally, you'll create a marketing and distribution plan to determine how to best bring your fashion line to market.
Once you've completed the program, you'll have gained a strong foundation in how the business of fashion operates that can help you launch or grow your career in the industry.
Populism, Democracy and Authoritarianism
Populist leaders, movements, and parties who claim to represent "the people" (however defined) and challenge political establishments have shaken up the traditional political order in many countries around the world in recent times. Yet, the populist label is loosely applied to a wide range of political phenomena, on both the left- and right-wings of the political establishment. It includes iconic figures as Juan Peron and Hugo Chavez in Latin America, as well as Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Beppe Grillo, and Jimmie Akesson in contemporary Europe--not to mention Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the United States. Many followers of such leaders see populism as providing a corrective to flawed or failed representative institutions under democracy. Critics of populism, on the other hand, believe it has intrinsic authoritarian tendencies, and thus see populism as a serious threat to democratic rule.
Students enroll in GOVT 3284.
Continuing Spanish
The goal of this low-intermediate course is to achieve a higher level of comprehension as well as to advance oral and written expression in a cultural context. Classes are in Spanish and the language is actively used in communicative and creative activities. Students engage in linguistic and literary analysis of texts to acquire new vocabulary, complete analytical exercises, and develop reading strategies. Students continue developing writing skills through composition, and review grammatical structures independently with some clarification by the instructor as needed.
Students enroll in SPAN 1230.
Leading Remote Teams Certificate
In today's digitally connected global environment, many organizations opt to operate virtually with a remote or partially remote workforce. This certificate program is designed to improve your ability to effectively manage a remote or virtual team. Through the five courses, you will examine the unique opportunities and challenges that come with remote work and explore strategies to enhance your ability to lead your team to success.
You will begin the program by exploring strategies for establishing trust, engagement, and commitment: key cultural elements that can help teams meet their goals and can prevent remedial action. Then, you will examine methods for encouraging constructive conflict, building accountability, and fostering effective decision-making in a culture where employees are not together in a physical location. By the end of the program, you will be prepared to successfully lead multicultural virtual teams and manage common challenges that can arise in a remote environment.
ARCH 4509: Immersive Realities - New Technologies of Visual Representation
Augmented and virtual reality are emerging as important and exciting tools for architects and designers. In this three-week course, we will introduce students to immersive realities as a tool for both creating and experiencing digital spaces. Students will learn the basics of 3D modelling CAD software and explore strategies for integrating digital creations with analog drawings. We will discuss technical aspects of how these new technologies work and how they might change the way designers inter
Students enroll in ARCH 4509.
Introductory Biology: Cell and Developmental Biology
The course introduces molecular mechanisms that underlie the organization, division, and growth of individual cells; how they organize during embryonic development to form functional tissues and organs in multicellular organisms; and how their misbehavior contributes to disease. For more information, see courses.cit.cornell.edu/biomg1350/. The learning outcomes below indicate the topics and skills that students should master upon completion of the course.
Students enroll in BIOMG 1350.
Entrepreneurship Certificate
Have a great idea for a startup but don't know where to begin?
This certificate program is designed to give both entrepreneurs and new investors the skills needed to evaluate the viability of business concepts and markets, navigate the pitching process, and ultimately gain an understanding of how to receive and invest from a variety of sources. This program will cover investments from equity investors, angel investors, venture capitalists, crowdfunders, economic development centers, and grants.
In this certificate program, you will learn how to find the right match for your opportunity or investment style, and what goes into delivering and assessing a successful business pitch. You will also explore how to protect your interests as the company is being structured, how to assign a fair valuation to the opportunity, and how to perform due diligence as the financing process moves from investor interest to actually closing the deal. Finally, you will examine the strategies for keeping entrepreneur/investor relations alive and healthy long after the deal has closed.
For the best experience in this program it is strongly recommended to take these courses in the order that they appear.
Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate
Laboratory in Genetics and Genomics
General introduction to the fundamental principles of genetics in eukaryotes and bacteria. Topics include gene transmission, linkage, recombination, structure, mutations, and manipulation, as well as analysis of genomes in individuals and populations.
Students enroll in BIOMG 2801.
Sales Growth Certificate
Business Economics Certificate
Elementary Swahili Jumpstart
Biomedical Engineering students who have an exchange program with Arusha Technical College (ATC) in Tanzania. The course introduces students to Swahili language and culture and equips language input to communicate with Arusha colleagues in formal and informal settings. Prior knowledge of the language is not required. Since this course is one credit, it does not fulfill the language requirement.Students will incorporate their working contexts at the beginning language proficiency level. The course aims to provide various reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities focusing on the daily interaction at work and outside. All tasks are geared to give students proficiency and competence to communicate with Swahili native speakers in Arusha, Tanzania. This course does NOT fulfill a language requirement for colleges or majors.
Students enroll in SWAHL 1108.
Revenue Management 360 Certificate
Revenue management is cross-functional and cross-disciplinary. The courses provide the skills you need to maximize revenue in today's complex global market. Take a strategic approach that enables your team to push the levers that drive profits and performance.
This certificate consists of 18 two-week courses - 14 core and 4 elective courses - and provides you with in-depth training in the principles of revenue-cycle analysis and management and practice applying these principles. Create and manage customer demand, establish a marketing strategy built around well-designed control systems, and fine-tune yield management in your market.
ARCH 2102: Design IV
In this Integrative Design Studio, the requirements of building systems are seen to both support and inform architectural concepts and form. One of the key design experiences during this semester will be the interaction of these concepts and building systems. Questions of energy, thermal comfort, sustainability, structure, material, and life safety will be addressed.
Students enroll in ARCH 2102.
Fluid Mechanics
Covers hydrostatics, the basic equations of incompressible fluid flow, potential flow and dynamic pressure forces, viscous flow and shear forces, steady pipe flow, turbulence, dimensional analysis, laminar and turbulence boundary layer, flows around obstacles, and open-channel flow. Includes small-group laboratory assignments.
Students enroll in CEE 3310.
The American Legal System
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the American legal system, its roots in natural and common law, the purposes/values it serves (e.g., resolution of private grievances; punishment of offenses against the polity and individuals; preservation, development, and limitation of individual and group rights; and facilitation of commerce and private agreements), and the roles of the judiciary, legislature, and private parties.
Students enroll in GOVT 3150.
Marketing Analytics Certificate
Enduring Global and American Issues
The US and the global community face a number of complex, interconnected and enduring issues that pose challenges for our political and policy governance institutions and society at large. Exploring how the US and the world conceive of the challenges and take action on them is fundamental to understanding them. This course investigates such issues, especially ones that fit into the critically important areas of sustainability, social justice, technology, public health and globalization.
Students enroll in AMST 3071 or GOVT 3071.
Literature, Politics, and Genocide in Cambodia
This course will examine various literary, historical, and political responses to the Cambodian genocide, particularly literary testimony by survivors and governmental efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. The course considers the limited effectiveness of these responses for addressing the causes and effects of genocide despite the vow of never again. To pursue these questions, students will read selections from novels and poetry written by Cambodian survivors, along with historical accounts of the genocide and analysis attempts by the Cambodian government and the international community to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Students enroll in ASIAN 2225.
Wines of Italy Certificate
Italian wines come in many different styles and are constantly evolving, making them an exciting combination of old-world tradition and modern innovations in grape growing and winemaking. From traditional nebbiolo, to the world-renowned sangiovese, to lesser-known grape varieties like trebbiano and brachetto, the Wines of Italy certificate program will take you through four major geographical zones within the country to not only explore the history of viticulture and winemaking in each of Italy's major areas, but also to analyze the unique regional geographic features that impact the wine.
To prepare for this journey, you will first complete the "Wine Essentials'' course to build a foundational understanding of viticulture, winemaking, and wine evaluation. In the next course, "Foundations of Italian Wines," you'll dive into the Italian wine classification systems and take a closer look at the varietals grown in each zone of Italy, including how the climate affects the grape and wine outcomes. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to examine Italian wine labels to better understand and anticipate the characteristics of a given wine. In the third and final course, "Experiencing Wines of Italy," you'll put what you've learned into practice by selecting Italian wines to taste, share, and compare.
Whether you're working in a professional hospitality setting, entertaining, or simply enjoying, after completing the program, you'll be able to select, experience, and recommend Italian wines with greater confidence — not to mention impress your guests!
The courses in this certificate program are required to be completed in the order that they appear.
Digital Photography Certificate
Executive Presence Certificate
Do you have the presence of a leader? Executive presence is a vital skill in business and life: being able to connect with other people by making your case and communicating genuine emotion, even in the most intimidating circumstances. Whether you're leading a team meeting or giving a formal presentation to a large group, you can learn to combine your breath, your voice, your body positioning, your passionate belief in what you're saying, and your authentic self so profoundly that people won't be able to look away.
In this 15-week certificate program, you'll learn by doing to refine your public speaking skills and build confidence in your own presence. By sharing videos of yourself presenting and receiving constructive feedback from fellow students and experts, you'll practice analyzing your performance, repeating, and refining your work in exercises and acting techniques specially designed by Cornell Theatre Professor David Feldshuh. It's not about achieving perfection. The core skills, analytical tools, and training exercises presented in this program are intended to position you for a lifetime of development. The better you get, the more you'll confident you'll feel. And it will show.
Fibers, Fabrics, and Finishes
This course introduces the properties and performance of textile materials and processes for FSAD majors and provides a general overview of the textile industry from a scientific perspective. Focus is on materials used in apparel and home furnishing markets. This course may also be used to fill a science requirement for non-FSAD majors in Human Ecology.
Students enroll in FSAD 1350.
Women in Product Certificate
As the key to developing innovative solutions to customer needs and driving growth, product management is one of today's increasingly critical and fast-growing fields — yet one where women are massively underrepresented.
This certificate program provides the opportunity for women interested in growing a career in product to gain the essential skills needed to design and develop a product through its entire lifecycle, from scoping and development through launch and beyond. The courses will introduce you to the processes of initiating new products, identifying the target customer, creating user stories, and design and development. In the second half of the program, you will examine some of the issues facing women leaders in the workplace and develop strategies for dealing with them, including how to best negotiate in the workplace, how to effectively provide both positive and negative feedback, and how to strengthen your emotional intelligence to stand out as a leader among both men and women.
The ultimate goal of the program is to encourage more women to grow into product leaders that develop innovative apps or solutions on which the world may be currently missing out.
Restaurant Revenue Management Certificate
Strategic restaurant revenue management is a critical ingredient in your recipe for profitability. But using a proven system to manage key dining variables has impacts beyond revenue—it has a ripple effect on customer service. Creating optimal dining flows, table mixes, and pricing helps you meet customer needs better than ever before.
This certificate program consists of five two-week courses that cover the fundamentals of successful revenue management, providing practical guidance for implementing a restaurant revenue management strategy. Learn to optimize occupancy, table mix, meal duration, and pricing. Then, bring it together with a proven process for implementing a revenue management strategy that boosts profits. Finally, learn additional tools for diagnosing and resolving operational problems and for improving the customer service experience.
Diversity and Inclusion Certificate
Comparative Corruption
Corruption, and the perception of corruption, pervades many aspects of society and has become a source of political protest around the world. This course focuses on the similarities and differences between forms, causes, and effects of corruption in various environments.
Students enroll in GOVT 3683 or SOC 3680.
Earth in the News
In this online version of Earth in the News, we will analyze and discuss the science behind some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century (such as climate change, energy, and biodiversity loss) and the most challenging natural hazards (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, and floods). Through these lenses, we will cover the foundations of Earth system science. As a geographically distributed group of students, we'll use also use online data and digital imagery to learn about and share
Students enroll in EAS 1108.
The Cell Biology of Infectious Disease
How do pathogens exploit human and animal hosts? The focus will be on the molecular and cellular interactions between host and pathogen with examples from SARS-CoV2, other viruses like influenza, bacteria and parasites. How do scientists obtain this information and how is it used to develop new therapies and drugs?
Students enroll in VETMM 1200.
Wellness Counseling Certificate
Whether you're an educator, coach, or wellness professional, this certificate program provides proven counseling techniques to blend within your chosen helping profession. You can significantly enhance your effectiveness, along with the success of the groups you serve, by using specific communication tactics that encourage open and productive partnerships. Additionally, in this program, you will also develop actionable steps to elicit behavior change from your clients and create a culture of wellness within your organization. Throughout the courses, you will have a chance to review and analyze best practices for your field, engage in live, active interviews and exercises with a peer in your class and "clients" from your network, and learn how to combine different counseling techniques for the best results. You will come away more confident, more effective, and ready to lead in your field.
Design Generation(s)
How do designers think, create, solve problems, and help humans interact with everything in our world, from spaces and places to skateboards and web sites? During this course, students interested in a career in design will learn how the creative problem-solving process is similar in a variety of design disciplines and how they can make a difference as a design professional.
Students enroll in DEA 1100.
Healthcare Management Certificate
Introduction to Cognitive Science
This course provides an introduction to the science of the mind. Everyone knows what it's like to think and perceive, but this subjective experience provides little insight into how minds emerge from physical entities like brains. To address this issue, cognitive science integrates work from at least five disciplines: Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy.
Students enroll in COGST 1101 or CS 1710 or PSYCH 1102 or PHIL 1910 or LING 1170.
Innovation Strategy Certificate
Any organization can create a new product, service, or technology, but without a structured plan, the chances of a low return on investment are high. In this series of courses, you will learn how to develop an innovation strategy that aligns with your organization's goals. Throughout the program, you will complete a series of activities that allow you to create and iterate on various aspects of a successful strategy, including identifying an executive champion and other supportive stakeholders as well as developing an overall vision, SMART goals, and a budget. You will practice using the innovation competencies of lean startup, makerspace, and design thinking to aid you in the customer discovery process. You will also learn how to use tools such as hackathons, design sprints, and centers of excellence to embrace the imagination of all your stakeholders. You will identify potential risks to successful implementation of your strategy and create mitigation plans. As you learn, you will create a presentation document called the innovation placemat that you can use to pitch to stakeholders in your own organization to make your innovation strategy a reality.
Excel VBA Programming for Non-Dyson Majors
This course is an introduction to programming with Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for students aiming to enter the world of business analytics. Using business applied cases students will increase decision making efficiency and productivity through a detailed understanding of VBA programming languages.
Enrollment limited to non-Dyson majors.
Students enroll in AEM 2831.
Business Management Essentials Certificate
Mastering the fundamentals of business management is critical to success in any industry, whether you work in a large organization or run your own small business. No matter the size of your budget or staff, you need to manage your money well, market your product effectively, and make sure the right people are motivated and supported to help achieve your goals. Perhaps most importantly, you need to be able to adapt based on new information and ever-changing market conditions.
The courses in this program are designed to give you a broad view of the key functions at the heart of any organization so you can make better decisions and accelerate your growth as a leader. You'll come away with a strong foundational understanding of business that you can apply to your work, whether you're starting your career, changing your current career, or even creating a new career.
Marketing Strategy Certificate
International Public and NGO Management Certificate
Planning and evaluating programs and projects run by international organizations is particularly complex since the organizations typically must work indirectly with and through sovereign governments and other organizations. The increasing importance of these programs for national officials as well as international managers has increased the need to have staff well trained in results-based management, including evaluation, under these conditions.
After a short introduction to basic concepts used in results-based management, the program moves to the creation and enforcement of international agreements and then to coordinating services and support at the global and country level.
The program delves into the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in the management of international programs and will teach you exactly how to make global objectives attainable and measurable. Ultimately, you will learn how to apply the methodological tools used in the planning of different types of international programs so that you can ensure you're getting the results you planned for.
This program is designed for people who work in international public-sector organizations, NGOs, and nonprofits.
Population Controversies in Europe
Population problems are central to societal change in numerous areas- inequality, immigration and diversity, race relations, family life, health and aging, and social welfare systems. This class explores the causes and consequences of population change, paying particular attention to how population processes interact with the social, economic, and political context in which they play out. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary debates unfolding in Europe, how population problems are defined, and the policies intended to solve them.
Students enroll in PAM 3620.
Social Inequality
This course reviews contemporary approaches to understanding social inequality and the processes by which it comes to be seen as legitimate, natural, or desirable. We address questions of the following kind: What are the major forms of stratification in human history? Are inequality and poverty inevitable? How many social classes are there in advanced industrialism societies? Is there a "ruling class?" Are lifestyles, attitudes, and personalities shaped fundamentally by class membership? Can individuals born into poverty readily escape their class origins and move upward in the class structure? Are social contacts and "luck" important forces in matching individuals to jobs and class positions? What types of social processes serve to maintain and alter racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination in labor markets? Is there an "underclass?" These and other questions are addressed in light of classical and contemporary theory and research.
Students enroll in DSOC 2090 or PAM 2208 or SOC 2208.
Digital Leadership Certificate
In today's accelerated world, data and digital technology are disrupting every industry and creating new opportunities for business transformation.
This certificate program will help you develop the digital leadership skills and mindset needed to thrive in this rapidly evolving digital landscape. You'll start with a digital audit of your organization and then learn to identify and implement new opportunities to drive competitive advantage through innovation and technology. From there, you'll be able to choose the focus area most relevant to you, including agile leadership, systems thinking, blockchain, or data analytics.
Ultimately, you'll come away better prepared to lead digital transformation initiatives to success in your organization or start-up.
Hotel Planning and Design Certificate
Through the five courses in this certificate program, owners, developers, and designers of full-service hotels will learn to plan and design effective, financially viable hotel properties and successfully perform their roles in the hotel development process.
The program begins with a look at hotel types, marketing concepts, branding practices, and development roles, followed by a study of initial planning decisions, the application of marketing requirements to functional areas, and the use of planning metrics. The focus then turns to specific design considerations for guestrooms, public spaces, and "back-of-house" areas.
The courses feature a set of downloadable tools containing guidelines and reference material for hotel developers and designers. A progression of course projects give participants an opportunity to apply their learning to specific hotel development scenarios.
The courses in this certificate program are required to be completed in the order that they appear.
International Human Rights in Theory and Practice
This course will introduce students to the law, theory, and practice of international human rights. It will also give you the opportunity to think critically about the effectiveness of the international human rights system by examining its successes, failures, and dilemmas in preventing and responding to human rights abuse. Topics covered will include the origins and foundations of international human rights; the role of international, regional and domestic institutions and actors in enforcing human rights; critiques of the human rights movement; economic and social rights; and human rights responses to mass atrocities.
Students enroll in GOVT 3887 or LAW 3887.
Conservation Medicine: A Veterinary Perspective
Discover how veterinarians are helping to combat the global biodiversity crisis and - through lectures, virtual labs, debates and discussion, films, and guest speakers - explore such topics as conservation medicine, biological principles, One Health, field study techniques, and wildlife management. This program will introduce you to conservation practices, veterinary medicine, and biological principles as they relate to the health of our planet.
Students enroll in VETCS 1200.
Partners in Animal Health: Feline Health
Narrated step-by-step instructions to help you care for your cat. Clear, easy to understand explanations featuring live-action videos and animated details.
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Taking Your Cat's Temperature Managing Destructive Scratching Behavior in Cats Giving Your Cat Liquid Medications Giving Your Cat a Pill or Capsule Gastrointestinal Diseases in Cats Cat Owner's Guide to Kidney Diseases Trimming Your Cat's Claws Caring for Your Diabetic CatPlease Note: We recommend consulting with your veterinarian who is the best source regarding animal health issues in general, information about your specific situation, and possible new developments since the copyright of this material.
Wines of California, the Pacific Northwest, and New York Certificate
Are you interested in developing a more nuanced appreciation of wine?
In this certificate program, guided by renowned wine expert Cheryl Stanley, you will expand your knowledge of wines from the four major wine-producing regions of the United States: California, Washington, Oregon, and New York.
You'll begin your journey by exploring wine tasting and evaluation techniques to identify distinct aromas and flavors in wine. With this foundation, you'll have the opportunity to discover each region's own unique history and landscape, connecting flavor profiles to the geographic features and production factors that influence them. You'll also learn to interpret wine labels in order to confidently navigate a wine list, select better wines from each region, and pair food with wine successfully.
Your experience will culminate with an at-home wine-tasting experience. During this event, you'll be able to observe how people interpret different wines, and compare your expectations and perceptions of wine, from grape to glass.
This program is intended for use by persons of legal drinking ages under the relevant applicable laws where they reside. Purchase of wines is required to enjoy the highly experiential nature of this course.
The Universe
When civilization was young, Seneca wrote, "A single lifetime, even entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject. Our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them." We will work to understand what he and the ancients knew about the night sky, and the ingenious methods by which they came to know it, and trace the history of astronomy through the modern day.
Students enroll in ASTRO 1105.
Data Driven Analytics
The practice of business is changing. Due to increasing desktop computing power and companies amassing large amounts of data, business decisions are becoming more and more data based. This holds in many sectors such as in internet marketing and online retailing where the only interaction with the customer is in digital form. This course aims at conveying some core principles of data driven decision making. This course is very hands-on and emphasis will be placed on solving real business cases, using real data via advanced spreadsheet enabled models, dashboarding and business intelligence with Power BI and detailed modeling using the statistical programming language R. The course covers a wide variant of models/topic including traditional descriptive analytics (through PowerBI), predictive analytics and machine learning (through R) and prescriptive analytics including optimization and simulation (in Excel and R).
Students enroll in HADM 4010 or HADM 6010.
Systems Thinking Certificate
Introduction to Environmental Psychology
Human-Environment Relations is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban and natural settings affect human health and well-being. Students also examine how human attitudes and behaviors affect environmental quality. Issues of environmental justice and culture are included throughout. Hands-on projects plus exams. Lecture and discussion sections.
Students enroll in COGST 1500 or PSYCH 1500.
Statistical Foundations Certificate
In today's data-driven world, you can't afford to be the only one at the table who lacks analytical knowledge.
This certificate program will familiarize you with basic statistical concepts and terminology that will help you become a better reader and producer of meaningful data reports for your business. You will learn how to evaluate statistical summaries and apply critical tools to assess their validity. You will practice creating the most effective graphic presentation for your reports. As part of this certificate, you will explore a variety of statistical tests and learn how to choose the right test for your needs. Finally, you will have an opportunity to experiment with more complex reporting tools and apply them to interpret real-world data.
You'll come away from the program with a more analytical mindset and increased confidence to work with data and data analysts to drive performance and decision-making in your organization.
For the optimal experience, it is strongly recommended that you complete these courses in sequential order.
Service Excellence On-Demand Training
At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, service is who we are.
Make service your competitive advantage.
Excellent customer service stems from strong strategies, approaches, and techniques that anyone can leverage. Cornell University's Service Excellence On-Demand Training offers employees eight online lessons exploring the foundations of service delivery, complemented by a Workshop Guide to facilitate on-site discussion and localization of concepts.
About the TrainingDelivering great customer service isn't simply a skill that some possess and others do not. The Cornell University Service Excellence On-Demand Training provides organizations and team members with a framework for critical thinking and techniques that can be adopted by customer-facing employees in any role. It provides tools that can be applied to any situation involving internal or external customers.
Applying a strategic approach to delivering customer service improves employees' effectiveness at assessing and delivering what customers need, when they need it. An approach centered on critical thinking rather than situation-based responses reduces errors, identifies potential problems before they start, and keeps difficult, stressful interactions from getting out of control. Armed with tools to read customers and manage constantly changing situations, employees will be more productive in their organization. Introducing broad service training will better equip team members to deliver on an organization's specific service promise, ultimately improving the customer experience and driving increased revenue.
Who Should Enroll?The Service Excellence On-Demand Training is exclusively designed for organizations. Within the organization it is applicable for anyone who works directly with customers.
Hospitality as an industry is well known for providing service, but organizations across service industries—including healthcare, financial services, retail, senior living, etc.—need to be adept at delivering excellent customer service and will benefit from this training.
Cornell's content is designed to supplement existing organizational training and enhance task-based training.
Training DetailsBlended learning approach: Employees first learn, practice, and demonstrate service-excellence concepts and strategies through eight online, self-paced lessons. Supervisors and managers then facilitate face-to-face meetings with their teams using the detailed Service Excellence Workshop Guide. The Workshop Guide includes instructions and pointers for facilitators as well as detailed questions to ensure that employees connect service-excellence concepts to the execution of their daily duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Concepts and strategies learned in the online portion are contextualized at the unit level to improve retention and reinforce company standards.
Learning time: Four to six hours for online lessons; recommended 30 minutes per lesson for each facilitated workshop event. On-demand training can be taken over time, lesson-by-lesson, or all in one day.
Technology: Learners are required to have access to a web-enabled device. Training lessons can be accessed via desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.
Recognition: Learners who successfully complete all eight lessons will receive recognition of their achievement from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
Authored By:
Elizabeth Martyn '07, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration:
Elizabeth Martyn has extensive experience in the luxury and ultra-luxury travel and guest services industry. Her past responsibilities have included managing operations, employee training and development, and creating full-service travel and accommodation experiences both domestically and internationally. She is a former undergraduate-core-curriculum instructor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Elizabeth holds a bachelor's degree in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.
In collaboration with School of Hotel Administration faculty:
Reneta McCarthy, Senior Lecturer; Cheryl Stanley, Lecturer; J. Bruce Tracey, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Rohit Verma, Professor and Dean of External Relations, Cornell College of Business and Executive Director, Institute for Healthy Futures.
Learning OutcomesApply routine customer interactions to the Cornell Service Experience Cycle; identify opportunities for improvement and strategies for implementing those opportunities
Leverage the PERC Toolkit, including Poise, Empathy, Resourcefulness, and Caring, to deliver more effective service
Read clues in the customer and the environment to inform service strategies and appropriately customize service delivery
Draw on best practices when handling difficult situations and resolving conflict
Identify opportunities for service recovery and correctly categorize recovery errors and appropriate responses
Improve communication by consciously considering audience, message, and method of delivery
Employ the Listen, Observe, Ask method to strengthen all customer interactions Training LessonsCornell Service Experience Cycle:
This cycle defines all customer service experiences including in-person, over the phone, or digital platform interactions. Understanding the cycle provides critical opportunities to address flaws and improve service, and ensures that customer needs are being properly met during real-world interactions.
Your PERC ToolkitIdentify the four critical characteristics of Your PERC Toolkit and demonstrate Poise, Empathy, Resourcefulness, and Caring throughout the work environment and during customer interactions.
Contextual SensitivityDefine and look for customer and environmental clues. Use these clues to assess situations and adapt and customize service strategies throughout the Service Experience Cycle.
Anticipating NeedsExplore proactive versus reactive styles and the benefits of acting with a proactive approach. Leverage skills to identify areas of improvement in the customer experience and the employee workday experience.
CommunicationShare information and engage more effectively through an understanding of how audience, message, and method of delivery influence how well other people receive your communication. Explore written, verbal, and non-verbal communication methods. Identify distractions in communication styles that may cause misunderstandings.
Managing the Customer Interaction: Listen, Observe, AskGain practical strategies to make the most of each customer interaction. Use active listening techniques and apply question words to problem-solve and practice thorough communication. Adjust your response to changing customer clues.
Strategies for Conflict ResolutionConflict is a part of the workplace; understand how it is also a unique type of customer exchange. Know how to stay safe in difficult interactions and reach out to appropriate resources when situations escalate. Identify opportunities for apologies and strategies for times when an apology is not appropriate. Practice respect for emotions, both your own and your customer's.
Strategies for Service RecoveryService recovery is a necessary and important step in every organization. Identify types of service failures through the Failure Matrix as well as appropriate responses for each type of failure. Think outside the box; consider new and novel approaches for service recovery.
About the School of Hotel AdministrationThe School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University is shaping the global knowledge base for hospitality management through leadership in education, research, and industry advancement. Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the school provides management instruction in the full range of hospitality disciplines, educating the next generation of leaders in the world's largest industry. Founded in 1922 as the nation's first collegiate course of study in hospitality management, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration is recognized as the world leader in its field. For more information, visit sha.cornell.edu.
Physics II: Electromagnetism
Second in a three semester introductory physics sequence. Topics include electrostatics, behavior of matter in electric fields, DC circuits, magnetic fields, Faraday's law, AC circuits, and electromagnetic waves. At the level of University Physics, Vol. 2, by Young and Freedman, 13th ed.
Students enroll in PHYS 2213.
Introduction To Organizations
In modern society, we all spend much of our lives participating in or interacting with organizations. Most of us are born in organizations, educated in organizations, and work in organizations. The ubiquity and variability of organizations result in a myriad of organizational challenges we regularly face. The goal of this introductory course is to help students gain understandings of the origins, structure, and dynamics of organizations and their relationships to their environment.
Students enroll in DSOC 2150 or SOC 2150.
PHR Prep Certificate
Python Programming Certificate
Python is one of today's most popular and fast-growing programming languages, with applications in data science, software development, machine learning, and AI.
This certificate program follows a rigorous, user-centric approach to software engineering with Python. Its goal is not simply to teach you how to use Python, but rather to understand the core principles of Python and develop the ability to become a proficient Python programmer and software developer. You will design, code, test, visualize, analyze, and debug Python functions and programs. You will also be provided a robust set of tools to assist you in your coursework.
Additionally, the program includes two project-based courses that provide the opportunity to take the concepts you learn in programming and apply them by designing Python-based solutions to real-world business problems.
Ultimately, you'll come away with not only the technical skills to grow in the field of computer science, but the problem-solving ability and creativity that companies are increasingly looking for.
Students must be comfortable with pre-calculus, basic algebra, and tinkering with their computer.
Nature Education
Nature experiences can be educational, joyful, and comforting, especially in today's urbanizing and post-pandemic world. Nature education brings people closer to nature and thus contributes to human well-being, including physical and mental health. This course will introduce you to diverse nature education practices, including programs run by urban and wilderness nature centers, unstructured play time for children, adventure and outdoor education programs, educational experiences in national parks, forest schools, as well as citizen science and environmental stewardship programs that incorporate nature-based experiences.
Topics include personal and community benefits of nature education, cultural ecosystem services, traditional and novel approaches to nature experiences, and challenges and critiques of nature education. Based on research and practice examples, this course is designed to help educators, volunteers, community leaders, parents and anyone else to gain professional credentials in nature education, and to incorporate nature in their educational programs and everyday life.
An experienced and dynamic team from Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab: Yue Li (Research Associate), Marianne Krasny (Professor), Wanying Wu (Chinese language assistant), plus 5 Chinese language teaching assistants.
Course developer (video lecturer): Alex Kudryavtsev.
Current and aspiring environmental educators, teachers, nonformal educators, volunteers, nature enthusiasts, university students, and anyone interested in using nature education in their work, life, research, and in training other educators. No background in nature education or environmental education is required. Available to participants in any country. All course materials are in English; video lectures contain subtitles in English and Chinese.?
Learning objectives
Through this course, you will:
Apply research explaining how nature education contributes to human well-being, makes communities healthier, and encourages people to be better nature stewards.
Review and critique different types of nature education programs, explore their outcomes, and adapt their educational ideas for your own practices.
Exchange practical ideas for nature education with other course participants and instructors.
Create a plan for incorporating nature education activities in your organization, educational program, community, or family.
Business Contracts Certificate
Contracts can make or break a business. Successfully preparing and interpreting a contract allows both parties to clearly define expectations under the protection of the law.
This certificate program explores the many different aspects of contracts. You will investigate the creation of enforceable agreements that clearly and precisely set forth the rights and obligations of parties in order to achieve business objectives with acceptable levels of risk. Throughout the courses, you'll have the opportunity to spend time breaking down the different types of law, procedures, and elements that make up contracts, as well as investigate strategies to mitigate risk and minimize consequences in the event that a contract is breached. You will also demystify legal jargon relating to contract law in order to enhance collaboration between businesspeople and their counsel. By the end of this program, you will have gained a set of tools that will enable you to create and manage contracts in your business confidently and effectively, as well as be a more active and informed partner to your legal team.
Discussion with Richard Griffin, General Counsel, NLRB
Richard Griffin, the new General Counsel of the NLRB, spoke before a live audience of labor lawyers on December 13, 2013. This course is based on a recording of that session and interviews with the speakers. Event was co-sponsored by Proskauer.
You will have 60-day access to course materials.
What You Will Learn About Griffin's background, priorities, and possible future initiatives as he takes the reins as General Counsel. Griffin's thoughts on inability-to-pay vs. "we don't want to pay" cases, what that means to the parties, and what management's responsibilities are. About Griffin's planned interactions with the Labor Bar, other government agencies, and citizens. ...and more.Summer Drawing I
General course introduces students to principles and techniques of representation. Emphasis is on creating the illusion of space and form through line, the rendering of light and shade, and studies in perspective. Students have the opportunity to explore various media such as charcoal, chalk, pencil, pen, ink, and wash.
Students enroll in ART 1500.
Canine Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia
This course is authored by Luis Campoy, LV CertVA, DiplECVAA, MRCVS, Senior Lecturer of Anesthesiology at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The course provides a solid foundation in epidural anesthesia, to prepare the learner to perform an epidural injection or epidural catheter placement in canine patients.
Marine Environmental Science
This course is aimed at high school students. This course focuses on issues in environmental science from a marine perspective. Basic scientific research methods, equipment, and group research projects are introduced. Laboratory exercises and fieldwork include work on Appledore Island's intertidal zone and offshore oceanographic sampling exercises.
Students enroll in BIOSM 1620.
Public Health Practice - M&E/CQI
Via this seminar, students will gain an understanding of the value and process of implementing routine monitoring and evaluation and continuous quality improvement with public health interventions. This will be practiced via in-depth discussion of real-life cases, and by self-directed research, planning, and peer review, including development of a M&E/CQI plan that could be implemented for a real project.
Students enroll in VTPMD 6183.
Greek Mythology
Survey of the Greek myths, with emphasis on the content and significance of the myths in Greek and Roman society, including the place of myth in Greek life and consciousness; the factors and influences involved in the creation of myths; and the use of myths for our understanding of Greek literature, religion, and moral and political concepts.
Students enroll in CLASS 2604.
Data Visualization in Tableau Certificate
As more and more industries and organizations harness the power of big data, the ability to illustrate trends and patterns within a data set has become invaluable. Data visualizations allow concise communication that directly informs strategic decision-making in a function or organization. You will begin this certificate by examining different data types and how they are expressed within Tableau. As you become more familiar with Tableau, you will practice building basic visualizations based on standard analysis and audience evaluation. As the courses progress, you will move beyond basic analysis, incorporating critique and feedback to introduce you to the iterative process of visualization. Ultimately, you'll come away with the confidence to use your data visualization skills to tell a compelling story.
Art as Experience
Art as Experience is an introductory course that expands a student's understanding of the ideas and practices of art today. Studio projects will introduce a broad range of mediums from drawing and collage to digital photography and video installation. Students will explore and respond to resources at Cornell University and the course will be supplemented with readings, critiques and field trips. The course will culminate in an exhibition where students will be responsible for the organization and installation of self-directed art work.
Students enroll in ART 1101.
Hospitality Management Certificate
A career in hospitality management means that you are involved in every aspect of your property's many moving parts. From the front of the house to the back, you need a firm grasp on finance, marketing, and managing employees to succeed. Build your credibility and learn how to manage a world-class operation with a foundation in essential industry best practices and skills.
By taking this certificate program, you will learn how to improve in your role as hospitality manager by developing strategies that can be applied to your teams in the workplace. This program covers a wide range of content, from building a loyal guest base to finances to team building, giving you a set of skills needed to be successful in a management role. Knowing how to handle multiple facets of the hospitality industry will help you manage your organization to its fullest potential as well.
Whether you are a manager currently, positioning yourself for a management position, or have recently been promoted, make your mark today by learning from experts in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, one of the world's most prestigious hospitality schools. You can finish all of the courses in this program and earn your certificate in as little as three months, spending about three to five hours per week.
Financial Success for Nonprofits Certificate
Python Programming for Non-Dyson Majors
This introductory programming course aims to teach the basics of programming in Python. Students will learn the Syntax, Loops, Functions,and Data Structure. Students will apply their skills to model and solve various business scenarios.
Students enroll in AEM 2841.
Fundamental Programming Concepts
Designed for students who intend to take CS 111x but are not adequately prepared for it. Basic programming concepts and problem analysis are studied. An appropriate high-level programming language is used. Students with previous programming experience and students who do not intend to take CS 111x should not take this course.
Students enroll in CS 1109.
Healthcare Change Management Certificate
Women in Leadership
Technology Leadership Certificate
Whether you're in software engineering, web development, or IT, professionals in the technology industry are uniquely suited to be strong leaders through their mastery of analysis and problem-solving skills. Yet many lack formal management training in the soft skills necessary to help tech teams and organizations reach their highest potential.
In this certificate program, you'll have the opportunity to analyze your own leadership attributes and decision-making styles as a technology leader; strengthen essential communication, motivation, and influencing skills; and ultimately prepare for future growth and success in the management of technical and project teams.
Negotiation Mastery Certificate
Learning how to negotiate effectively is an important skill to have in business and in life. By becoming a better negotiator, you are more likely to make the deal you want, get a better job offer, and create further value. This certificate program will help you improve your negotiation abilities by introducing you to relevant tools and terminology, as well as practical negotiation tactics. Throughout the courses, you will have a chance to review and analyze real-world case studies, engage in live, active negotiation exercises with a peer in your class, and learn how to combine different negotiation techniques for the best results. Ultimately, you'll come away better prepared to achieve your desired outcomes in any business situation — a skill that will pay off life long.
5 month duration, 6-10 hours of coursework per week Consists of 6 three-week courses Learn more about eCornell's Negotiation Mastery CertificateE-STEM Education
E-STEM Education is designed for teachers and nonformal educators who want to help youth become scientifically literate, environmental citizens. Teachers will learn how to integrate environmental education into STEM classes such as biology and earth science, and non-formal educators will learn how to make science part of nature and environmental education programs. You will also learn about inquiry-based and project-based learning, and other active learning strategies, and apply what you learn to develop your own E-STEM lesson plans. View the course trailer.
In this course, you will:
Understand the connection between environmental education and science education. Learn about different outcomes of E-STEM education. Explore different learning approaches including problem-based, inquiry-based, project-based, and place-based learning. Develop an E-STEM lesson plan for your classes, programs, families or communities. Participate actively in a global online community of E-STEM educators.Participants who complete the course are awarded a Cornell University certificate (PDF).
Cost is $60 or any amount you can afford.
Questions: Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, Use "E-STEM" in the subject line.
Management 360 Certificate
This comprehensive stackable certificate program gives you the opportunity to build a broad foundation in seven essential areas of business management. With courses in leadership, marketing, finance, strategy, and more, you'll have the opportunity to learn from the same faculty who teach in Cornell University's MBA programs and apply key business concepts in real-time in your job. Whether you're striving to become a better people manager, fill in gaps in your financial acumen, or operate at a more strategic level, this program is a great way to gain the breadth of skills you need to drive business success.
This program is designed to meet the needs of busy working professionals by allowing you to work on each focus area individually over time.
About eCornell of Cornell University
As Cornell University's online learning subsidiary, eCornell provides many of the world's leading organizations with online professional development in the areas of finance, healthcare, hospitality, human resources, leadership, management, and marketing.
eCornell's proven course development model and asynchronous instructor-led course delivery provide students with a flexible, engaging, and immediately applicable learning experience crafted by Cornell University faculty. eCornell has delivered online courses to over 90,000 students in more than 200 countries.
For more information, visit www.eCornell.com
Employment Law for Leaders Certificate
From the hiring process to privacy and compensation, employment law is a critical component of the relationship between organizations and workers. Contrary to popular belief, however, the law does not have all the answers to today's tricky business situations. This certificate program draws attention both to the aspects of the law that involve specific legal protections and constraints, as well as to the zones of discretion within which employers and employees can act. You will start in the first course by developing a solid foundation in U.S. employment law: what you need to know and what you need to keep in mind in your business in order to avoid litigation. Subsequent courses cover specific areas of interest in the workplace, such as employee privacy, wages and benefits, anti-discrimination policies, and intellectual property rights. In each of these courses, you will begin with the basic outlines of the most important laws that relate to the topic under discussion. After you gain a baseline understanding, you'll go beyond it to explore the discretionary areas within the law. This program gives you the opportunity to study real-world cases which challenged and in some cases divided the courts. You'll read the cases, compare your assessments with those of your peers, then read the judges' decisions. Throughout the program, projects will give you the opportunity to explore how each topic area relates to your own workplace.
For the best experience in this program it is strongly recommended that you start with the first course, Employment Law in Practice.
The information provided in this course should not be used as a substitute for legal advice.
Foundational Perspectives and Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship
A primary objective of this course is to broaden students' perspectives on entrepreneurship and the myriad ways that entrepreneurial activity contributes to innovation, economic growth, and society.
Students enroll in AEM 2220.
Product Management Certificate
Product management is among today's most desirable skill sets, often serving as a direct path into executive leadership in organizations and making or breaking success for entrepreneurs.
In this program, you will develop the product mindset needed to bring viable products to market. The courses are designed to give product managers a deeper understanding of what it takes to bring a product from idea, to launch, to future iteration. You will begin by defining the problem a product will solve as you map the customer's journey and articulate user personas. You'll have the opportunity to learn important facets of product roadmapping decisions and prototyping through a number of product management activities, including how to partner with designers to create codeless prototypes. The focus then moves to measuring progress against objectives and presenting product learnings to stakeholders. You will apply these skills to build and launch into production, ensuring end-product success as you bring your product to market.
Human Resource Management
Intended to introduce students to the field of human resource management (HRM). Students learn theories and applications involved in effectively managing people in organizations. In addition, this course covers current topics in HRM that have resulted from environmental and organizational challenges (e.g., technology, globalization, legislation, restructuring, work/life balance, changing labor markets). Emphasis is placed on developing relevant problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, as the basic concepts of HRM and the skills developed in this course are applicable to all types of organizations and jobs in which students will eventually work.
Students enroll in ILRHR 2600.
Veterinary Medicine: Science and Practice
The course serves as an introduction to the science and practice of veterinary medicine. Aspects of the anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and several clinical specialties will provide insight into the knowledge behind veterinary medicine and other medical careers. Material will also offer insight into the diversity of career options available in this and related fields. Study will be at the level of introductory undergraduate course material.
Students enroll in VTBMS 1200.
Web Design and Development Certificate
This front-end web development certificate is all about designing and building websites that are focused on the needs of users, striking a balance between form and function. From the very beginning, you will explore the ideas of mental models and target audience personas. By taking a design-first, code-second approach, you will learn to structure content and make informed design decisions based on the needs of potential website visitors before writing a single line of code. Foundational concepts of writing valid HTML and CSS are paired with accessibility best practices to ensure you can implement your designs effectively and accurately. Through an introduction to JavaScript, jQuery, and data collection, you will explore adding simple interactivity and forms to your websites. Throughout these courses, you will practice meeting the needs of your target audiences while designing web experiences that are attractive, functional, and accessible.
Leading a Culture of Service Excellence Certificate
Great service isn't just a customer benefit; it's a competitive differentiator in any industry. The courses in this certificate program leverage today's leading customer service strategies to help you raise the standard of service excellence for your organization, business unit, division, or team. You'll learn to assess the market needs for the service provided by your organization and develop the leadership competencies needed to create a consistent culture of empowerment and continuous improvement that will inspire exceptional service, every time, everywhere.
Plastics: Impacts and Action
Description. This course explores our social and environmental relationships with plastics and uses plastics to help understand the complex dynamic systems shaping our planet and our lives. During the course we will use critical and systems thinking while learning about everything from the plastic lifecycle, to plastic's social and environmental impacts, to NGO and government plastics policies. You will apply your knowledge by designing and implementing a locally-relevant action targeting plastic pollution. Such projects may include working for policy changes at schools or workplaces, art projects, reuse initiatives, and so much more! This is a unique opportunity to be part of an online learning community taking action against plastic pollution.
The course is largely asynchronous--meaning you can access the short lectures, readings, and other materials when it's convenient for you. We also hold weekly webinars (recorded for those who can't make it) as well as optional weekly office hours.
Instructors. An experienced and dynamic team from Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab: Bethany Jorgensen (PhD Candidate), Marianne Krasny (Professor), Yue Li (Research Associate), Kim Snyder (Course Administrators), Wanying Wu (Chinese teaching assistant), plus 10 Chinese language assistants.
Participants. Environment and education professionals, volunteers, university students, or other plastic-concerned citizens from any country. Discussions will be in English and Chinese.
Learning outcomes.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:?
Learn about systems thinking and apply systems thinking to describe the plastic lifecycle, plastics' global circulation as goods and waste, and the environmental and health impacts of plastics.
Discuss the feasibility and effectiveness of plastic governance approaches.
Develop and implement a locally-relevant action to address plastic pollution.
Critically reflect on the experience and outcomes of your plastic pollution intervention and write a 1-2 page report describing your action and reflections.
Participate actively in a global online community of plastic-concerned citizens.?
Cost. $60 fee. Most participants pay this fee. Options available to pay a higher fee ($120) to sponsor another student, or pay a lower or no fee if you are unable to pay or live in countries without internationally accepted payment systems (e.g., Afghanistan, Iran).
Questions? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com (Please write "Plastics" in the subject line.)
Learn more & register: https://www.civicecology.org/plastics1
Servant Leadership Certificate
What is a leader? We often think of a leader as someone who is in charge of people, products, or processes. But what about the person on the team who everyone looks to when the boss is gone or when advice is needed? That person is a leader too.
Leaders can have formal power or responsibilities, or they can simply be a person of influence. Regardless of role, research indicates that effective, successful leaders are those with strong character and the ability to lead with courage, humility, and compassion. Fortunately, character is not something we are just "born with." Character is something that can be developed over time. In this program, you will have the opportunity to explore seven dimensions of leadership that are associated with strong character through case studies and examples. You will also complete self-reflection exercises, assessments, and activities to initiate and continue the work of developing these character dimensions.
In addition to developing your leadership character, this certificate provides you with skills needed to enhance your credibility as a leader and consider the power of both perception and experience as you build a culture of service leadership.
Ultimately, you will take the first steps on a lifetime journey of developing the character that will enable you to be the best leader you can be.
NOTE: This program includes a copy of Amy Newman's ebook, Building Leadership Character (California: Sage, 2019). You will receive instructions about how to access the ebook when you join the course. If you prefer to purchase a hard copy of the book we suggest you do so before the start of the course. The book is available for purchase online or at other retailers.
Data Science for All
This course provides an introduction to data science. Given data from economics, medicine, biology, or physics, collected from internet denizens, survey respondents, or wireless sensors, how can one understand the phenomenon generating the data, make predictions, and improve decisions?
Students enroll in CS 1380.
Engineering Management
Master of Engineering in Engineering Management The Cornell Engineering Management Program has been training technical leaders for over 30 years. The Online Learning Program is a part-time degree program for working professionals who would like to amplify their engineering skills while gaining experience in business and management.
The online and asynchronous format allows students to pursue a master's degree while working full-time and the degree can be completed in two years. Students gain skills that can be immediately applied to their current position while building a lasting network of fellow engineering professionals and Cornell alumni. Companies sponsoring students can support professional development for their employees without significant time away from work while equipping them with skills to solve their everyday challenges.
Students engage with the curriculum using innovative technology, real-world case studies, projects, and active learning techniques. In addition to high-quality course videos, instruction may include practice activities, cohort discussions, and seminars or guest lectures with industry experts. The course content is punctuated with one-week intensive sessions on campus in Ithaca, NY once per year.
We do not require the GRE to apply and we evaluate multiple measures with a holistic approach to admissions. We accept students with at least two years of work experience from all STEM and engineering disciplines. Since our strength is broadening and deepening technical/quantitative skills, students must have taken Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Differential Equations, and Probability and Statistics.
For more information, attend a live information session, join our mailing list, or email our Program Team.
Prefreshman Summer Program in Biology
PSP Biology for non-majors is a course designed to introduce students to the nature of modern biology as it is taught at Cornell and to prepare them to be successful in introductory biology. Using a combination of classroom techniques, including interactive lecture, study groups, problem-solving sessions, facilitated discussions, and collaborative presentations, the course focuses on selected topics that are normally covered in the introductory non-majors biology courses.
Students enroll in BIOG 1009.
Employment Law Certificate
This certificate program is designed to help current and aspiring human resource managers and staff understand employment laws and regulations in order to deal effectively with labor-related legal issues in the workplace. The courses address key employment law requirements in the United States and also provide guidance on the implementation of employment policies and practices in countries with different legal systems.
The program begins with a focus on establishing a structured framework for analysis of workplace legal issues. It then moves into a close look at US laws relating to equal employment opportunity, leave, compensation, safety, employee relations, and other employment issues. The last two courses address a global context with a comparison of employment laws in different parts of the world, followed by a study of best practices in developing HR policies and practices in multinational settings.
The courses feature downloadable, interactive tools designed to help HR professionals assess and deal with a variety of legal issues in the workplace.
Revenue Management
Revenue Management (RM), sometimes referred to as Dynamic Pricing, are methods for profitably managing hotel capacity. The intent of this course is to teach you how to effectively implement RM techniques. Emphasis will be placed on the integration among techniques, information technology, and to expose you to RM the travel market.
Students enroll in HADM 4050 or HADM 6050.
Managing Operations
This course prepares students to think analytically and managerially about operations processes, and to use the tools and intuition they acquire to ensure that the operations in production and service systems support the business strategies for these systems. A process view of operations will be used to analyze different key operational dimensions such as flow time management, service operations management, quality management, inventory management and supply chain management.
Students enroll in NCC 5580
Calculus for Engineers
Essentially a second course in calculus. Topics include techniques of integration, finding areas and volumes by integration, exponential growth, partial fractions, infinite sequences and series, tests of convergence, and power series.
Students enroll in MATH 1910.
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences I
A first course in statistics for graduate students in the social sciences. Descriptive statistics, probability and sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, and correlation. Students are instructed on the use of a statistics computer package at the beginning of the term and use it for weekly assignments.
Students enroll in ILRST 5100.
Writing Workshop
This writing seminar is designed for students who need more focused attention to master the expectations of academic writing. The course emphasizes the analytic and argumentative writing and critical reading essential for university-level work. With small classes and weekly student/teacher conferences, each section is shaped to respond to the needs of students in that particular class.
Students enroll in WRIT 1034.
Machine Learning Certificate
Machine learning is emerging as today's fastest-growing job as the role of automation and AI expands in every industry and function.
Cornell's Machine Learning certificate program equips you to implement machine learning algorithms using Python. Using a combination of math and intuition, you will practice framing machine learning problems and construct a mental model to understand how data scientists approach these problems programmatically. Through investigation and implementation of k-Nearest Neighbors, naive Bayes, regression trees, and others, you'll explore a variety of machine learning algorithms and practice selecting the best model, considering key principles of how to implement those models effectively. You will also have an opportunity to implement algorithms on live data while practicing debugging and improving models through approaches such as ensemble methods and support vector machines. Finally, the coursework will explore the inner workings of neural networks and how to construct and adapt neural networks for various types of data.
This program uses Python and the NumPy library for code exercises and projects. Projects will be completed using Jupyter Notebooks.
Machine learning is complex. While you do not need to have machine learning experience in order to take the program, we strongly recommend having prior experience in math, including familiarity with Python, probability theory, statistics, multivariate calculus, and linear algebra.
Social Media in HR: From Policy to Practice Certificate
Marine Mammal Biology
Introduction to the biology and conservation of the whales and seals, with a particular focus on species of the Gulf of Maine. Lectures will examine many facets of marine mammal science including: taxonomy and species diversity, morphological and physiological adaptations for life in the sea, foraging ecology and behavior, reproductive cycles, bioacoustics, anthropogenic interactions, and management of threatened species. Land and open-water observations of whale and seal behavior will give students hands-on opportunities to study marine mammals in the field. Laboratory work, including dissections, may also occur pending the availability of samples.
Students enroll in BIOSM 3450.
ACA and Wellness Programs: At Odds With EEO Laws & Collective Bargaining Agreements
Affordable Care Act regulations encourage employers to implement wellness programs (e.g. smoking cessation, weight loss, etc.) with an assumed resulting reduction in the cost of insurance coverage. What happens if an employee can't lose weight?
Who Will Benefit from This Course
Attorneys, Directors of Wellness Programs
2.5 CLE Credits (NY State) for Attorneys
Price: $149
Physics I: Mechanics & Heat
First course in a three-semester introductory physics sequence. This course is taught in a largely "flipped', highly interactive manner, with reading preparation required for class. Covers the mechanics of particles with focus on kinematics, dynamics, conservation laws, central force fields, periodic motion. Mechanics of many-particle systems: center of mass, rotational mechanics of a rigid body, rotational equilibrium, and fluid mechanics.
Students enroll in PHYS 1112.
Newtonian dynamics of a particle, systems of particles, rigid bodies, simple mechanisms and simple harmonic oscillators. Impulse, momentum, angular momentum, work and energy. Two-dimensional (planar) kinematics including motion relative to a moving reference frame. Three dimensional rigid-body dynamics are introduced at the instructor's option. Setting up the differential equations of motion and solving them both analytically and numerically with MATLAB. In-lecture laboratory demonstrations illustrate basic principles.
Students enroll in MAE 2030.
General Physics I
PHYS 1101 and PHYS 1102 emphasize both quantitative and conceptual understanding of the topics and tools of introductory physics developed without the use of calculus. The courses offer individualized instruction. Students learn through completing assigned readings, problems, and laboratory exercises, and through individualized tutoring. Additionally, recorded lectures, overview sessions, short videos, sample tests, and online tutorials are provided.
Students enroll in PHYS 1101.
Change Management Certificate
Bovine Necropsy Exam
Narrated, live-action video demonstrating a step-by-step postmortem examination in cattle including techniques for diagnostic specimen collection and instructions for packing and shipping diagnostic specimens to the laboratory for testing. The video features realistic 3-D animations clarifying key steps in the procedure.
Strategic Hospitality Marketing Certificate
When you're marketing your services, success depends on knowing what target customers want and aligning it with the value your company delivers.
This requires an integrated strategy that includes market analysis and demand management, marketing strategy, brand management, and marketing communications.
By adopting this customer-centric approach to marketing, you'll be better prepared to deliver memorable experiences, exceed customer expectations, gain competitive advantage, and ultimately position your company for success.
Product Marketing Certificate
Product marketing, or the process of bringing a product to market, is an increasingly critical role that sits at the intersection of the marketing and product management functions. For any product, navigating the nuances of effectively positioning within a given market and determining optimal pricing can be a daunting task — one that can make or break a launch. This certificate program gives you the necessary tools and tactics to make strategic decisions that will impact the growth and viability of your product, organization, or venture.
You will begin by examining different strategies for evaluating the market and determining the value drivers of your target customers. You will have the opportunity to develop a plan for delivering added value to different customer segments as well as mitigating potential threats within the market. Next, you will practice assessing the opportunities presented by change and disruption, using tools to assess the challenges of a dynamic market as well as address potential internal obstacles to successful implementation. You will then take an in-depth look at market research. Practicing the evaluation of research methods and reviewing different applications of research within actual business scenarios are the focus of this course. The last course in this series will give you a foundation in pricing strategies that will allow you to maximize profit for your products. By the completion of the program, you'll be better prepared to position your products for market success.
Hospitality Leadership Certificate
A hospitality leader's ability to guide their organization strategically, while maintaining their credibility and fostering a collaborative environment, is a difficult balancing act yet one that must be accomplished.
This certificate program will not only help you gain the skills to strategically assess and innovate within your organization, but also the ability to build trust within your team, enhance your listening skills as a leader, and create expectations and goals that will effectively drive team performance. The courses cover a broad range of leadership content that will help you critically evaluate your current leadership style while providing you with the necessary tools to improve and grow as a leader.
Whether you are currently in a leadership role or are positioning yourself for one, this program gives you the opportunity to learn from experts in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, one of the world's most prestigious hospitality schools.
FinTech Certificate
FinTech, or financial technology, encompasses a range of rapidly emerging technological changes in the financial services sector. Anyone involved in the world of traditional financial institutions, asset management, or loans — or even tangentially involved with newer options like crowdfunding, mobile payments, blockchain, and cryptocurrency — has reason to be interested in FinTech.
In this certificate program, you will get an inside look at the key disruptions in the current FinTech industry landscape. Using these insights, you will apply the lessons of disruption to a challenge facing your organization and perform a Porter's Five Forces analysis on one of your own products or services or someone else's. You will also delve into the five major financial verticals, including wealthtech (robo advising), alternative (peer-to-peer) lending, insurance tech, currency and payment tech, and regulatory tech. You will then apply a framework of analysis to help you pinpoint opportunities for disruption within each of these verticals. Finally, you will move on to the study of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cryptography, where you will investigate how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin make use of the blockchain to facilitate peer-to-peer digital transactions.
Entrepreneurship and Concept Development in the Food and Beverage Industry
Taught in the world-renowned School of Hotel Administration, currently ranked number one in the world for hospitality management, in Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business, this intensive and engaging course will enable you to: deepen your understanding of the food and beverage industry, from market segmentation to menu planning, food safety, supply chain, and service issues; learn what it means, and takes, to be an entrepreneur in the food and beverage industry; identify the considerations required to develop a viable, and sustainable, food and beverage concept and; strengthen your business, marketing, and management knowledge.
Students enroll in HADM 1102.
Heat and Mass Transfer
Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer. Macroscopic and microscopic balances. Applications to problems involving conduction, convection, and diffusion.
Students enroll in CHEME 3240.
Integrated Marketing 360 Certificate
Executive Healthcare Leadership Certificate
Art as Experience III: Sculpture
Sculpture is distinguishable from other visual arts through its inherent use of space and reliance on an enormous range of materials. It is in our space, it makes us move in a certain way and it makes us want to move in a certain way. Because sculpture is physical like us, we respond to it on a visceral level. Sculpture can also be made out of literally anything, and each "anything" already comes with its own meanings and associations.
Students enroll in ART 1103.
Executive Women in Leadership Certificate
In many organizations, men hold more executive positions and board seats than similarly qualified women. Even organizations that bring on women and men at the same rate still demonstrate a gender imbalance at the highest levels of leadership because the power structures and gender dynamics in place often favor and reward the contributions of men over women. In this environment, even the most experienced and capable women struggle against gender bias and established power dynamics on their way to the top.
In this certificate, you will learn strategies and techniques to skillfully level the playing field as you work to attain higher levels of leadership. You'll begin with an evaluation of the gender bias and power dynamics present in your organizations and develop strategies to overcome their limiting effects. Next, you will assess and refine the way you present yourself as an executive. Leaders often have to negotiate on behalf of themselves, their teams, and their institutions, so students will explore ways to prepare for the challenges women face in negotiations and adapt their negotiation style to the context of a given situation. Given that strong professional networks are often required to advance careers to the highest level, you will create a plan to fully develop your own networks while navigating the potential traps of gender and power dynamics. Finally, you will peek behind the boardroom door to identify the key competencies needed for board membership and explore the various - and sometimes unlikely - pathways women follow to the boardroom.
Neurobiology and Behavior I: Introduction to Behavior
General introduction to the field of animal behavior. Topics include evolution and behavior, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, chemical ecology, communication, orientation and navigation.
Students enroll in BIONB 2210.
Introduction to Fermented Grains, Hard Ciders, and Sake
The course will introduce students to fermented grain beverages and ciders from around the world. The class will explore basic production methods of the products. Demonstration of the proper way to examine the different products will be done through lecture and tastings.
Students enroll in HADM 4375.
Human Resources Essentials Certificate
Wines of France Certificate
France produces many of the planet's best old-world wines.
The Wines of France certificate leads you on a virtual tour, from grape to glass, of eight important French wine regions. To prepare for this journey, you will first complete the "Wine Essentials" course to build a foundational understanding of viticulture, winemaking, and wine evaluation. You'll then have the opportunity to explore the French wine classification systems, the varietals grown in different regions of France, and how the climate affects the grape and wine outcomes in the next course, "Grape Varietals of France." You'll also examine terms you will encounter on French wine labels so you are prepared to anticipate the characteristics of a given wine. During the third course, "Experience Wines of France," you'll select French wines to taste, share, and compare.
Whether you're working in a professional hospitality setting, entertaining, or simply enjoying, after completing the program, you'll be able to select, experience, and recommend French wines with greater confidence — not to mention impress your guests!
Communication and Technology
This course introduces students to the Communication and Information Technologies focus area of the communication department and the Human Systems track for information science. It examines several approaches to understanding technology and its role in human behavior and society. Topics include psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication; how design plays a role in the way we interface with technology and collaborate with each other; and the ways in which communication technology is situated inside social and institutional structures and cultural formations.
Students enroll in INFO 2450.
Avian Necropsy Examination
This 11-part video series provides a complete step-by-step guide to the necropsy examination of poultry. Learn how to select the appropriate birds to examine, systematically evaluate all the body systems, identify abnormal gross lesions, and much more.
Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues
This course will introduce students to the meaning and significance of forms of cultural diversity for the understanding of contemporary issues. Drawing from films, videos, and selected readings, students will be confronted with different representational forms that portray cultures in various parts of the world, and they will be asked to examine critically their own prejudices as they influence the perception and evaluation of cultural differences.
Students enroll in ANTHR 2400.
Engineering Probability and Statistics II
A rigorous foundation in theory combined with the methods for modeling, analyzing, and controlling randomness in engineering problems. Probabilistic ideas are used to construct models for engineering problems, and statistical methods are used to test and estimate parameters for these models. Specific topics include random variables, probability distributions, density functions, expectation and variance, multidimensional random variables.
Students enroll in ORIE 5500 or ORIE 3500.
Financial Accounting
A comprehensive introduction to financial accounting concepts and techniques, intended to provide a basic understanding of the accounting cycle, elements of financial statements, underlying theory of GAAP, and financial statement interpretation. Topics include methods of recording inventory, receivables, depreciation, bonds, and equity.
Students enroll in AEM 2210.
Body, Mind, and Health: Historical Perspectives for Future Professionals
A course in the social history of medicine that examines the ways in which medicine and its practitioners have impacted -- and been impacted by -- American social, political, cultural, and economic development. The course focuses on the changing nature of disease, the medical profession past and present as well as historical and contemporary issues in pubic health.
Students enroll in STS 1451.
Bio-Fluid Mechanics
Properties of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; hydrostatic and dynamic forces; principles of continuity, conservations of mass, energy and momentum and their applications; laminar and turbulent flows and boundary layer, introduction to Navier Stokes; dimensional analysis and similarity; internal and external bio-fluid examples will be covered e.g. blood circulatory systems and animal locomotion.
Students enroll in BEE 3310.
Managerial Accounting
Introduction to cost accounting emphasizing the application of accounting concepts to managerial control and decision making. Major topics include product costing, standard costing, cost behavior, cost allocation, budgeting, variance analysis, and accounting systems in the manufacturing environment. Requires use of electronic spreadsheets.
Students enroll in AEM 3230.
FWS: An Introduction to Writing in the University
This writing seminar is designed for students who need more focused attention to master the expectations of academic writing. Emphasizes the analytic and argumentative writing and critical reading essential for university-level work. With small classes and weekly student/teacher conferences, each section is shaped to respond to the needs of students in that particular class.
Students enroll in WRIT 1340.
American Sign Language I
Students with no previous background in American Sign Language (ASL) will be introduced to basic conversational techniques in ASL, including both expressive and receptive skills. Basic grammar and vocabulary will be covered, including explanations of the fundamental parts of a sign, proper use of fingerspelling, and the significance of non-manual features. Instruction will be supplemented with videos, allowing students to begin exploring the visual literature of the Deaf community in the United States. Readings and class discussions will acquaint students with American Deaf culture, history and education, and the historical development of ASL.
Students enroll in ASL 1101.
ARCH 4101: Design VII
Advanced programs in architectural design, with options in, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.
Students enroll in ARCH 4101.
Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience
An introduction to neuroscience: the structure and function of the nervous system of humans and other animals. Topics include the cellular and molecular basis for cell signaling, the functions of neurons in communication and in decision making; neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, sensory systems, motor systems, neural development, learning and memory, and other complex brain functions. The course will emphasize how the nervous system is built during development, how it changes with experiences during life, how it functions in normal behavior, and how it is disrupted by injury and disease. The course will include an online discussion section.
Students enroll in BIONB 2220.
Anything but Common: The Hidden Life of the American Crow
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
This course is all about the remarkable lives of American Crows. Taught by world-renowned crow biologist Dr. Kevin McGowan, who has worked with a banded population for decades, you'll get an inside look into what makes them so compelling—from their complex social lives to their impressive problem-solving skills.
You'll enjoy 10 instructional videos packed with facts and stories to help you understand life from a crow's perspective, 7 SnapIDs to hone your crow and raven identification skills, 3 quizzes to reinforce your learning, and just for fun, an exclusive exercise that challenges you to distinguish individual crows.
Information Technology for Public Service
This course will equip you with an understanding of the technical, organizational, managerial, social, and policy-related issues surrounding information and communications technologies in public and nonprofit sectors, and help you develop the knowledge for analyzing and leveraging technology in diverse settings. The course integrates 1. key managerial topics, such as technology acquisition, global sourcing, project management, risk governance, and digital strategies; 2. essential technical topics, such as the foundation of digital computers, history and architecture of the Internet, and the net neutrality policy; 3. emerging technology trends and new models of organizing, such as AI, blockchain, and digital platforms; 4. case studies from markets worldwide; 5. analytical frameworks for problem-solving and decision-making in real-life scenarios. The course is designed for students both with and without technical background.
Students enroll in PADM 1472.
Introduction to U.S. Labor History
Introductory survey covering the major changes in the nature of work, the workforce, and the institutions involved in industrial relations from the late 19th century to the present.
Students enroll in ILRLR 1100.
Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
Intermediate programming in a high-level language and introduction to computer science. Topics include program structure and organization, object-oriented programming (classes, objects, types, sub-typing), graphical user interfaces, algorithm analysis (asymptotic complexity, big O notation), recursion, data structures (lists, trees, stacks, queues, heaps, search trees, hash tables, graphs), simple graph algorithms. Java is the principal programming language.
Students enroll in ENGRD 2110.
ARCH 3101: Design V
Design and development of complex architectural projects situated in urban contexts and developed with regard to program, site, building, and representation.
Students enroll in ARCH 3101.
Public Sector Leadership Certificate
There are a multitude of strategies, books, and resources that are meant to help you improve your leadership skills. But if you work in the public sector, do these strategies apply to you? What is different about leading in a public organization?
In this certificate program, Seth Harris, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor, will help you explore these questions. You will assess your own leadership skills as well as examine your own organization to determine its unique characteristics. You will also examine your employees and teams to better understand what motivates them to work in the public sector.
With a better understanding of both your organization and your people, you'll have the opportunity to use several leadership models and goal-setting approaches that can help you determine which leadership strategies and behaviors will be most effective in your organization.
Northwestern University and CAPA :The NLRB and College Football
The NLRB granted Northwestern University's request to review Regional Director Ohr's decision finding scholarship football players to be employees within the meaning of the NLRA. What will the Board's decision mean for the Brown, Boston Medical Center, and Specialty Healthcare decisions? This case has created national debate about how the student athletes as employees with the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining would affect them, college sports, the NCAA, Title IX, and higher education.
Introduction to Western Civilization
The West and its relations with the rest of the world are central topics today, but just what is the West and what is its history? This course surveys the history of the West from remote antiquity to the 16th century. We will consider developments in technology, economy, politics, religious institutions and faiths, cultural media and social ideals. Together, these themes add up to civilization in the west.
Students enroll in HIST 1510.
5G Strategy Certificate
How are you preparing for the next wave of digital transformation? Revenues from 5G wireless technologies are anticipated to exceed $230 billion by 2025, offering dramatic improvements over previous generations of wireless communication and enabling significant business opportunities for applications never seen before.
From fixed broadband markets to B2B applications such as smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT), this program will explore the capabilities of 5G and identify innovative products and services you can develop to better meet the needs of customers.
To help ensure your 5G-enabled innovation is successful, you will develop strategies to grow your network of users so you reach the critical mass needed to launch that network and create value for your users. You'll also have the opportunity to analyze the ecosystem of companies that influence 5G applications — suppliers, competitors, complementors — and determine how to differentiate your technology effectively. Finally, you'll explore how to create a sustainable business model and protect your product from threats such as competitor imitation or substitution, ultimately positioning yourself for success in this rapidly growing market.
Anthropology of Parenting
Human children are packets of genes that represent individual reproductive success. Like all animals, humans are selected by evolution to care for their offspring, but human infants and children require more intense parental investment than the offspring of most other species. Why is this so? Human parents are also influenced by cultural belief systems and ideology that play out in parenting styles. How do various belief systems influence parent-offspring interaction? In this course we will examine the human infant as a biologically designed organism that has co-evolved with caretakers, and then look at the various parenting styles across cultures that also mold our young.
Students enroll in ANTHR 3305.
Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
Introduction to organic chemistry with emphasis on structure, reactivity, and mechanisms of carbon compounds relevant to the life sciences.
Students enroll in CHEM 1570.
Business Statistics Certificate
Leading organizations understand the value of data: it can transform operations, maintain agility, and create a competitive edge. Without it, you're flying blind. Yet in order to integrate data into your decision-making processes, you need a set of tools to transform raw data into a valuable asset. The primary tool set every data-driven decision maker needs is statistics. As the foundation of any data-driven decision, statistics helps you make sense of your data. This certificate program is designed to help you not only gain a strong working knowledge of statistical concepts but also the ability to apply them to your data to make better business decisions.
Think Like a Bird: Understanding Bird Behavior
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
We developed this course to help you think like a bird. It is designed to transform your birdwatching experiences by giving you all the tools you need to understand why your favorite birds act the way they do, no matter where in the world you go.
Immerse yourself in bird behavior, then practice thinking like a bird through behavioral simulations and our mystery behavior challenges. It will transform your birdwatching experiences and give you the tools to unlock the mysteries of your favorite birds.
Completion Time:4 hrs estimated
Optional CEU Credits:0.4
Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Social Constructs, Real World Consequences
This course will examine race and ethnic relations between Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in the United States. The goal of this course is for students to understand how the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. affects opportunity structures in, for example, education, employment, housing, and health. Through this course students will gain a better understanding of how race and ethnicity stratifies the lives of individuals in the U.S.
Students enroll in AMST 1104 or LSP 1105 or SOC 1104.
PR Strategy Certificate
How your organization represents itself to the outside world can make or break your brand, creating a unique demand for skilled public relations professionals with the ability to develop strategic communications.
Whether you are preparing a speech, speaking to the media, or navigating a crisis, this certificate program will prepare you to deliver effective messages both internally and externally. Through the coursework, you will study a rigorous eight-step process for building a communications plan that you can measure and evaluate against critical business objectives. You'll also have the opportunity to discover best practices to use when collaborating with PR agencies to maximize communications impact. By the end of the program, you will have mastered the ability to create and implement an effective PR strategy that aligns your efforts with the goals of your organization.
Strategic Healthcare Leadership Certificate
Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Certificate
Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, & Molecular Biology
Comprehensive introduction to biologically important molecules and polymers. Topics include protein structure and function, enzyme catalysis, metabolic regulatory pathways, DNA and RNA structure, DNA replication and repair, gene expression, protein synthesis, and modern DNA technologies. This is a summer session taught in a lecture format.
Students enroll in BIOMG 3330.
Applied Econometrics
Introduction to the theory and application of econometric techniques. Emphasis is on both development of techniques and applications of econometrics to economic questions. Topics include estimation and inference in bivariate and multiple regression models, instrumental variables, regression with qualitative information, heteroskedasticity, and serial correlation. Students are expected to apply techniques through regular empirical exercises with economic data.
Students enroll in ECON 3120.
ARCH 4100: Elective Design Studio
Non sequence design studio for students who are not architecture majors at Cornell and for department students taking design studio for non-sequence credit.
Students enroll in ARCH 4100.
American Sign Language II
This course focuses on continued development of conversational fluency in ASL, for both expressive and receptive skills. Through communicative activities and feedback, students will acquire a deeper understanding of grammatical features including use of non-manuals. Readings and class discussions will acquaint students to topics relevant to the Deaf community, American Deaf culture, ASL linguistics and history. The course will provide further development in ASL literature by analyzing storytelling features and re-telling them.
Students enroll in ASL 1102.
ARCH 5104: Design X
A structured studio for those needing to take an alternative to design thesis. This course operates within one of advanced option design studios.
Students enroll in ARCH 5104.
Science, Technology, and Politics
From global warming to surveillance of citizens to health-care reform, issues in science, technology, and medicine are also political issues. This course uses contemporary scientific controversies to explore the intersections of science and politics. Issues explored may include the role of the military and private sector in funding research, the politics of experts and expertise, computer privacy and national security, and environmental politics.
Students enroll in STS 1101.
Compensation Studies Certificate
HR Analytics Certificate
HR has always been about people, and this remains true today. However, given the rapid digital transformation in today's organizations, the need for data-driven decision making has become essential. There is both a shortage of analytical talent within HR and an increasing demand for these types of skills. In this certificate program, you will learn to source, analyze, and visualize HR data to inform decisions and recommendations. You will strengthen your analytical acumen to make decisions through analysis and storytelling. Through the application of data analytics you will be positioned to examine common HR challenges around hiring top talent, engaging the workforce, managing retention, and evaluating workforce diversity more rigorously. You will also apply a cost-based approach to determine the business impact and return on investment associated with HR initiatives. By the end of this program, you will have developed the strategic and systematic measures necessary to excel in HR analytics.
Nature Journaling and Field Sketching
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Whether you're looking for a creative spark for your artistic expression, a way to develop your observational skills, or an immersive and mindful journey through nature, this course will guide you with friendly art instruction and engaging practice sessions that will help you make the most out of your journaling.
Scientific illustrator Liz Clayton Fuller leads you through more than 4.5 hours of video instruction and guided practice designed to build your confidence in filling journal pages. You can choose to join the discussion forum to share your thoughts and images. Observation techniques include—sit spot, squint test, and proportional measuring. Art techniques include—mark-making, chiaroscuro, blind contour and gesture drawing, negative space, watercolor mixing, wet on wet, wet on dry, dry brush, wash, glazing, and blending.
Liz was not only a good teacher but inspired me to work on my drawings on a daily basis. Her confidence in me encouraged me to do better in my drawings and be patient with the process. My transformation in this course is due to Liz's passion in art and investment in her students." —Nature Journaling Student
Trail Running: Self-Guided
This fully independent section of Trail Running will meet twice online to discuss the basics of trail running, then subsequently participants will run independently and will log their activity. Those who have logged at least 15 hours total by the end of the semester will receive a PE credit. Anyone may participate, even if you are not in Ithaca, although those in Ithaca will benefit from weekly suggested routes, advice, and video tours of our favorite local running areas.
Students enroll in PE 1624.
Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation MOOC
How do scientists study sharks? Join researchers on location in labs, aquariums, and oceans across the globe to learn about biodiversity, biology, and conservation of some of the most fascinating animals living on Earth – sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
In this activity?rich course, you'll track movements of a wild shark and examine topics in the functional anatomy, sensory biology, reproduction, behavior and ecology of many of the 1200 living species.
This is an exciting time to be a shark biologist. An explosion of new research methods and technologies are leading to a surprising world of discovery. We'll introduce new as well as traditional techniques for classifying sharks, understanding behavior, and unraveling the mysteries of shark evolution. You'll be invited to explore global shark populations and consider shark-human interactions and their impacts on history and culture. You'll be rewarded by your ability to see virtually any animal with new eyes. Practice thinking like a biologist while honing critical skills that can lead to broader observations about the ongoing history of life on Earth.
Engineering Leadership Certificate
A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering Simulations MOOC
In this hands-on course, you'll learn how to perform engineering simulations using a powerful tool from ANSYS, Inc. This is a problem-based course where you'll learn by doing. We'll solve textbook examples to understand the fundamental principles of finite-element analysis and computational fluid dynamics. Then we'll apply these principles to simulate real-world examples in the tool including a bolted rocket assembly and a wind turbine rotor. By working through examples in a leading simulation tool that professionals use, you'll learn to move beyond button pushing and start thinking like an expert. All learners will have access to a free download of ANSYS® Student. Join us to discover why simulations have changed how engineering is done and how you can be a part of this revolution.
Introduction to Communication
This course will provide an introduction to the study of Communication. Topics include the functions, foundations, models, and modes of communication. Students will be introduced to research methods and begin to master the research and study skills required to be a successful scholar of communication. An overview of concepts and processes related to the functions of communication will be examined through current theoretical and empirical research.
Students enroll in COMM 1101.
Hotel Management and Owner Relations Certificate
As a leader at your hotel, it is critical that you have a successful working relationship with the ownership group. The owner of the asset relies on you to deliver a positive return on investment. This program provides you with in-depth training on crucial skills required when working with ownership and asset managers.
This certificate program provides you with the context of how ownership and asset managers approach their market. From property investment and achieving key financial objectives to learning about the competitive landscape, these courses enable you to view the partnership from the owner perspective. Your elective courses build upon the necessary skills for a stronger, more productive relationship between you and the ownership group to ensure your long-term success.
Product Development Certificate
You have a great idea for a product. So what's next?
In this program, you will learn how to bring a product from concept to market launch, becoming conversationally fluent in all facets of the product development and manufacturing process. Every great product begins with a prototype, so you'll build one as a course project and use it to conduct customer discovery interviews. The information you gain from these interviews can then help you iterate your ideas and level up what you can offer customers.
From small-batch manufacturing to large-scale production, the physical product development process is often complex. The courses in this program provide you with a concrete set of best practices and tools that you can download and use to not only complete assigned projects, but also deploy later in your own real-world product development process, such as a production techniques and materials handbook, Gantt charts to plan hiring and production stages, a design checklist, and a funding pitch deck. You will get a chance to virtually "visit" a plastic injection molding company near Cornell University and experience multiple interviews with manufacturing experts and product entrepreneurs. When you have completed the program, you will be well positioned to bring your product ideas to life.
Principles of Micro-Economics Supplement
Reviews lecture material presented in ECON 1110 lectures; provides problem-solving techniques, study tips, and additional problems to prepare for exams and problem sets; provides additional time for questions and discussion of concepts. Provides additional instruction for students who need reinforcement.
Students enroll in ECON 1001.
Marketing AI Certificate
As digital transformation reshapes every industry and function, marketers everywhere are racing to implement performance-driven marketing strategies that leverage today's most powerful digital technologies. Artificial intelligence is expected to have up to a $2.6 trillion business impact in sales and marketing alone. Will traditional, tried-and-true marketing methods be folded into this new era of performance marketing and AI, or will they become a thing of the past? Is your organization keeping up with the latest and greatest technology? Are you missing any potential areas for improvement?
In this certificate program, you will discover practical, innovative ways to apply machine learning and AI to the marketing function in order to enhance the customer journey, achieve data-driven decision making, and ultimately impact the success of your marketing initiatives.
You will start by assessing your organization's current marketing activities and create a plan to optimize them using the key concepts from AI and digital marketing to formulate a digital strategy. You will then be guided in creating your own digital marketing plans for both paid and owned media. In the final course, you'll have the opportunity to create a performance marketing plan and identify ways to supercharge it using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Upon completing the program, you will have developed the skills and frameworks needed to gain an edge in digital marketing with artificial intelligence tools and battle-tested strategies that can stand the test of time in this rapidly changing landscape.
Persuasive Communication Certificate
In business and in life, one of the most crucial skills you can develop is the art of persuasion. When communicating your ideas to others, practicing how to craft a succinct and persuasive message can allow you to push projects forward, gain buy-in from stakeholders, and advance in your career.
In this certificate program, you will investigate a variety of approaches to communicate effectively with different audiences. By assessing the needs of your audience and implementing this audience analysis along with some key techniques and strategies, you will be better positioned to craft the ideal message and delivery for your persuasion goals. Whether you are preparing a presentation for a group of decision makers or speaking informally to a few colleagues, you can use the recommended best practices in this program to achieve better results.
Plant Biology
Introductory botany, including plant identification. Emphasizes structure, physiology, reproduction, and classification of flowering plants. Those who lack college-level biology are expected to work closely with the instructor on supplemental instructional materials.
Students enroll in PLBIO 2450.
Feeder Birds: Identification and Behavior
See your backyard birds in a whole new light with help from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Becoming good at ID, getting a handle on what each bird eats and why, and learning to recognize bird body language will enrich your bird-feeding experience. With this course, prepare to greet your feeder birds by name and get the tools you need to unlock the secrets of their social behavior—with 30+ SnapIDs, 30+ instructional videos, and quizzes with each lesson.
Project Management Certificate
Most projects, even at successful companies, tend to go over budget and take longer than projected—even with formal training, specialized tools and automated software. The courses in this project management certificate program teach proven strategies and practical, hands-on tools to drive successful project outcomes. You'll learn how to scope projects effectively, set key milestones, improve time budgeting and resource allocation, and get the project done on time and within budget. Processes covered within the project management certificate program include agile methodologies and earned value management (EVM).
The concepts, tools, and language of project management in this program can be applied to any size or type of project. Familiarity with the language of project management is helpful, but not required.
In addition to the certificate's 5 courses, you have the option to join an intensive 5-week PMP study group, which includes live online sessions with other students and your instructor, guided practice PMP exams, and preparation strategies designed to help you prepare for the PMP exam. Accompanying study books required.
Introduction to Engineering Stochastic Processes I
Uses basic concepts and techniques of random processes to construct models for a variety of problems of practical interest. Topics include the Poisson process, Markov chains, renewal theory, models for queuing, and reliability.
Students enroll in STSCI 3510 or ORIE 3510.
Marketing Analytics Certificate
Be a Better Birder: Sparrow Identification
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
With a world-class instructor and exclusive learning tools, this course will transform your sparrow identification skills.
Learn with short training videos for a total of 4+ hours of instruction. Train for field conditions with 5+ hours of photo ID practice. Hone your birding strategies through Keys to ID and comprehensive quizzes after each lesson. Absorb gestures and song through video portraits of each species. Have the sparrows at your fingertips with 4 free ID poster downloads.
Be a Better Birder: How to Identify Bird Songs
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Master techniques for identifying bird songs that you can apply to learning the birds in your area.
Travel across the country exploring real soundscapes with Dr. Sarah Wagner as your guide. She'll introduce you to an exciting variety of wild voices and bring in Cornell Lab experts to teach you tips and tricks for learning to identify them. You'll explore 7 natural soundscapes and get to know 18 featured birds before unleashing your new listening skills on a mystery soundscape. You'll watch field clips of birds singing, get to know their songs, and then learn to recognize them in context with our Bird Song Spotlight tool.
Foundations of Microeconomics
This course explores the three fundamental economic questions: what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. After completing this course, students will be able to explain transactions between firms and households in terms of a circular flow model, articulate basic market mechanics using a demand and supply model, analyze the role of the price system in determining production and consumption, and compare the strengths and weaknesses of markets and the government's interventions.
Students enroll in ILRLE 1411.
Communications for Engineering Managers
ENGRC 3350 focuses on understanding communication within engineering organizations and within student teams. Students work in project teams throughout the semester to write reports and deliver talks. The focus of the project teams depends on instructor, but might include analyzing case studies
Students enroll in ENGRC 3350.
Introduction to Applied Science Communication: Digital Platforms and Public Engagement
This course is co-taught by a scientist and a communication professional who will lead students through a series of hands-on experiences. Students will learn real-world examples on consuming information, evaluating evidence, and contributing information to online resources, such as Wikipedia. Students will learn from local science café curators and science podcast producers about reaching the public effectively and how to build a communication strategy plan using modern digital platforms.
Students enroll in BIOG 3500
Psychology of Leadership Certificate
Introduction to Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
This course is an introduction to macroeconomic analysis at the college level and the issues that are most important to the national debate relating to economic policy.
Students enroll in AEM 1300.
Be a Better Birder: Warbler Identification
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
We know that it can feel overwhelming at first to learn the warblers. Get the help you've been looking for with world-renowned birder Kevin McGowan as your guide. Introducing the most comprehensive online course on warblers.
Learn with short training videos for a total of 4+ hours of instruction. Train for field conditions with 5+ hours of photo ID practice. Hone your birding strategies with comprehensive quizzes after each lesson. Absorb gestures and song through video portraits of each species. Have the warblers at your fingertips with 4 free ID poster downloads.
16 hrs estimated
Vector-Borne Diseases Surveillance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a growing threat of vector-borne disease cases in the United States and a limited capacity to respond. Local and state health departments and vector control organizations are facing increasing demands to respond to these threats. One of the most important strategies for doing so is surveillance — standardized trapping, species identification, testing for pathogens, and data interpretation.
This course will help you understand the tools, methodology, and best practices for the surveillance of arthropod vectors, including ticks and mosquitoes. You will gain the knowledge and resources necessary to design an effective vector surveillance program in your local jurisdiction. The course is intended to train and create a network of public health practitioners, from a variety of backgrounds, in entomology and in the approaches, techniques, and skills required for effective surveillance programs.
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Management Accounting Certificate
Writing about Communication
Students develop skill in various writing styles and genres. This course explores communication practices and theories as they are observed and studied in personal and professional contexts. Assignments polish students' ability to gather information, analyze information, integrate ideas about communication, and express those ideas clearly and cogently. Outcome 1: Students will be able to build skills in a series of tasks critical to high-quality writing; finding, evaluating, analyzing, synthesizing and prioritizing complex material. Outcome 2: Students will be able to master the individual components of the writing process; composing, editing, and revising. Outcome 3: Students will be able to translate social science and communication theories and concepts for academic and public audiences. Outcome 4: Students will be able to maintain the fundamentals of effective writing while adapting style, tone and content to fit a variety of formats and audiences.
Students enroll in COMM 2310.
Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
Gives students a working knowledge of basic probability and statistics and their application to engineering. Includes computer analysis of data and simulation. Topics include random variables, probability distributions, expectation, estimation, testing, experimental design, quality control, and regression.
Students enroll in ENGRD 2700.
Labor Relations Certificate
Historically in labor relations, the enemy is always on the other side. This certificate program takes a different approach, aiming to help you see the value from both perspectives, with a focus on answering the question, "What does the other side need?"
Designed to help both new and seasoned managers and union representatives deal effectively with labor relations in the workplace, the courses address aspects of collective bargaining in the United States and provide a framework for addressing labor and employer conflict in the workplace.
The program begins with a focus on establishing a foundation in collective bargaining for analysis of one's role within the union environment. It then moves into a close look at contract negotiation, including the key skills you need to cost out a contract during tense and fast-moving negotiations. The last two courses provide a time-tested, comprehensive method to address workplace conflict from the grievance through arbitration.
Heat and Mass Transfer in Biological Engineering
Focuses on understanding the principles of heat and mass transfer in the context of biological (biomedical/bioprocessing/bioenvironmental) systems. Emphasizes physical understanding of transport processes with application examples from plant, animal and human biology, the bioenvironment (soil/water/air), and industrial processing of food and biomaterials. Development of problem solving abilities is emphasized using active learning techniques.
Students enroll in BEE 3500.
Narrative and Healing
This course focuses on narrative competence and its role in medical education and clinical practice. Narrative is fundamental to the way we imagine, live and write our lives. In medicine, skills associated with the study of literature are crucial in diagnosis and treatment.
Students enroll in ENGL 2795.
Brand Management Certificate
Brand management has become one of the most important aspects of business strategy. Brands are often a central organizing principle of successful organizations — guiding decisions and actions. Whether you're a brand marketer, business leader, or entrepreneur, this certificate program provides an essential framework to build and manage a great brand.
Through the coursework, you will define the foundational building blocks for your brand purpose by understanding the target audience and crafting integrated marketing communications. You'll identify opportunities and threats that affect your brand's market position and determine potential strategies to capitalize on opportunities to strengthen your brand's position. You'll then create a brand positioning strategy for your market, and identify various vehicles for marketing communications that would effectively reach the brand's target market. Finally, you will explore brand assessment and management strategies for the allocation of resources to ensure brand performance is optimized and brand objectives are met.
Calculus I
Topics include functions and graphs, limits and continuity, differentiation and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, inverse trig, logarithmic, and exponential functions; applications of differentiation, including graphing, max-min problems, tangent line approximation, implicit differentiation, and applications to the sciences; the mean value theorem; and antiderivatives, definite and indefinite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, substitution in integration.
Students enroll in MATH 1110.
JavaScript Programming Certificate
In this certificate program, you will practice fundamental programming skills and build web interactivity through the use of JavaScript. Beginning with a simplified visual JavaScript library called Blockly, you will start by constructing simple programs to perform simple tasks. As you build your skills through the use of more advanced code structures and techniques, you will write JavaScript to create a variety of interactive web elements, from forms to image galleries. You'll also have the opportunity to explore how to streamline your implementations and expand the functionality of your programs with libraries and asynchronous programming. In order to take JavaScript beyond the web, you'll explore progressive web apps and even build a rudimentary app that runs offline. Upon completing the certificate, you will have developed a strong grounding in programming fundamentals and be well positioned to advance your skills in JavaScript as well as any number of programming languages.
You will be most successful in this program if you have some familiarity with HTML and CSS.
The courses in this certificate program are required to be completed in the order that they appear.
Chemical Ecology
Why are chilies so spicy? This course examines the chemical basis of interactions between species and is intended for students with a basic knowledge of chemistry and biology. Focuses on the ecology and chemistry of plants, animals, and microbes. Stresses chemical signals used in diverse ecosystems, using Darwinian natural selection as a framework. Topics include plant defenses, microbial warfare, communication in marine organisms, and human pheromones.
Students enroll in BIOEE 3690 or BIONB 3690.
Labor and Film
Labor and Film examines the history of unions and workers in the United States through the use of film. Students will explore the various social issues and problems raised by each film and examine how these issues are shaped by important social factors including social class, race/ethnicity and gender. We will pay particular attention to whether workers and their unions are depicted as passive victims of larger social forces or whether they are portrayed as participants in their own destinies. We will also explore how the films depict the relationship between the labor movement and other movements for social change.
The historical context of each film
How movies shape society's perception of workers and unions
When, why and how filmakers changed history to make a "better" story
How the perspective of the filmakers shapes the presentation of the narrative
APPROACH AND FEATURES Each week we will watch a film, analyze it and its historical context, and discuss our reactions. The short weekly reading will be available as pdf files for download. A list of DVDs and a link to where they can be purchased will be included in the syllabus.
BENEFITS TO YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION You and your organization will have a small library of DVDs that can provide labor history education to community organizations sympathetic to labor and as an internal organizing tool.
Technical Presentations Certificate
Knowledge is power but it's only half the battle. Sharing knowledge — that is, effectively communicating even complex concepts to your audience — is the real strength.
This certificate program is designed to help you design, build, and deliver impactful in-person and virtual presentations to an array of internal and external audiences. The courses will provide you with an opportunity to examine, reevaluate, and collect rich insights into best practices for engineering, technical, and scientific presentations. Throughout this program, you will reevaluate current and past presentation practices that do not achieve the intended goals in order to help you refine your ability to deliver an effective message. You will practice techniques that can be adapted to meet specific technical communication needs. Most importantly, you will have many opportunities to apply and experiment with the course concepts in your work.
Though this program is especially focused on how to deliver specialized or technical information in presentations, the practices presented in these courses work well in business, marketing, and other contexts.
You will be required to purchase Traci Nathans-Kelly's book "Slide Rules" to complete your coursework.
Business Analytics Certificate
Business problems need solutions based on data, not intuition. Yet most organizations struggle to translate the abundance of data they have today into meaningful business insights.
Now more than ever, data analytics, approached with a business management mindset, is an essential function for successful decision making in every industry. It can help frame problems, create comparisons, forecast outcomes, and make predictions. And the people who can make meaning from data in a way that stakeholders and executives can easily understand often become some of the most valued people in a company.
In this certificate program, you will learn effective methods to analyze data and make better, more informed business decisions. Working with Excel as your go-to tool, you will master real-world spreadsheet modeling concepts, examine data cleaning methods to improve accuracy, and explore ways to manage data using Excel's math and logic capabilities to their full potential. You will get a chance to visualize your data into compelling charts and dashboards to communicate your findings, and make simulated predictions based on what the data reveals. Whether you're a manager or executive responsible for financial or functional reporting, an analyst, or an entrepreneur, this program will help you develop the kind of mission-critical business analytics skill set that will make you invaluable to any team.
Organic Gardening
This online course was developed in response to a strong, growing interest in organic gardening and is intended to examine the basics of small-scale organic gardening. The topics and depth of information offered will help new gardeners learn the basics and feel comfortable getting started, while also offer more experienced gardeners the opportunity to expand their knowledge base. This course may not be ideal for very experienced organic gardeners. Additionally, students will walk away with a wealth of resources to look into for further study
The course has a strong foundation in soil health and its impact on plant health and a whole systems approach to gardening. The course also explores various techniques for growing different kinds of garden plants – annuals and perennials, food plants and ornamentals.
Participants are required to read assigned material, view recorded presentations, participate in online group discussions with other students, complete reflective writing/design work and take part in some hands-on activities. Though the class isn't "live", it is designed to keep a pace of one topic each week (see outline and syllabus below). The content for the week is posted every Monday. You work at your own pace during the week, and assignments are due Sunday. Most students spend 3-4 hours/week with the content, though there are always ample resources and opportunity to do more.
The course is non-credit, and we present a certificate of completion to all those who participate in the whole course. Partial scholarships may be available for Cornell Cooperative Extension affiliated people or students in need.
Introductory Oceanography
This class relies more on intuitive reasoning rather than complicated mathematical formulas to convey basic concepts about how the ocean works. For this reason, the class is very accessible to non-science majors. The class covers standard material about how the ocean works, but also includes current environmental threats facing the ocean such as global warming, ocean acidification, overfishing and coastal pollution. Students will gain a depth of knowledge about the ocean and global warming to enable them to speak and write confidently about contemporary public issues regarding the health of the ocean, global warming and a sustainable future.
Students enroll in EAS 1540.
Hospitality Labor and Employment Law Certificate
Hospitality industry labor laws have become increasingly complex to follow, as regulations were largely designed with other industries in mind. But it has never been more critical for employers to make sure that they are in compliance with both federal and state laws, which are rigorously enforced.
This certificate program begins by providing you with a framework for discrimination law to help you identify the seven protected classes under federal law and then defines employers' obligations in accommodating these classes. Additionally, you'll delve into the specifics of discrimination laws, including sexual harassment and organizational liability under the law. Throughout the courses, you'll have the opportunity to examine your organization's current HR policies and practices to help recognize and minimize discriminatory behavior in the workplace. You will also study the nuances and complexities of wage and hour law and explore traditional labor law, including the National Labor Relations Act, the purpose of unions, and strategies to manage in a union environment.
By the completion of the program, you'll come away better prepared to adhere to employment laws to avoid costly risks, exposure, and damages.
Risk Communication
Every day we face known and unknown risks to our own health and safety and risks to the environment. In many cases we not only misperceive these risks, but we frequently make decisions that put us at even greater risk. Communicating the likelihood of harm based on complex, incomplete, and uncertain science is a challenge. This course uses case studies to illustrate theories of risk communication, and practical in-class exercises to demonstrate how theories apply to specific situations.
Students enroll in COMM 4860
Climate Solutions
In this course, students will review basic climate change science, impacts, communication strategies, and actions. After discussion with classmates, students will choose a climate action from the Drawdown (www.drawdown.org) list of 100 climate solutions that they can implement and invite others to implement. Finally, students will estimate the impact of their climate action on mitigating greenhouse gas. Students will participate in weekly discussions with fellow Cornell students.
Students enroll in NTRES 3800.
Project Management 360 Certificate
Prepare to lead successful large-scale projects by refining both your project leadership and project management skills. As a project leader, you need to think both strategically and tactically to lead high-functioning teams to meet your objectives. Learn how to scope projects effectively, improve time budgeting and resource allocation, and gain the communication skills and emotional intelligence needed to get the project done on time and within budget.
In addition to the certificate's 11 courses, you have the option to join an intensive 5-week PMP study group, which includes live online sessions with other students and your instructor, guided practice PMP exams, and preparation strategies designed to help you prepare for the PMP exam. Accompanying study books required.
Visual Communication
Introduction to visual communication theory. Examines how visuals influence our attention, perspectives, and understanding. Uses examples of visuals drawn from advertising, TV news, documentaries, entertainment movies, print, and interactive media to develop a theoretical framework for becoming more visually aware and for thinking more critically about how visuals influence us.
Students enroll in COMM 1300.
Introduction to Southeast Asia
What is Southeast Asia? How does this faraway, "exotic," region intersect with our realities? This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (which includes Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and its diasporas using cinematic, literary, historical and scholarly materials. This introduction to Southeast Asia's historical, religious, literary, visual, and political traditions – and the ways in which scholars have thought about them – addresses a variety of themes including notions of kinship, gender, political conflict, colonialism, media and the arts, sexuality, textual and visual genres, and forms of belief and belonging. Students will have an opportunity to investigate topics of interest to them, in the form of research essays as well as small-scale fieldwork, curatorial, or media projects. (GE)
Students enroll in ASIAN 2208.
Strategic Management of Tech & Innovation
This is an introductory management course covering the management of technology and innovation in start-ups as well as in established firms. This course is designed for students who may someday work in, consult for, and/or create firms whose primary product is fundamentally related to technology or innovation.
Students enroll in NBA 2650.
Client-Directed Counseling for Nutrition Professionals Certificate
ARCH 3109: Elective Design Studio
Nonsequence design studio used for off-campus foreign programs for third-year B.Arch. students. Credit will be applied toward ARCH 4101 upon successful completion of ARCH 3102.
Students enroll in ARCH 3109.
Acquiring Multiple Languages
In this course we will introduce basic issues involving bilingual and multilingual acquisition, especially in young children. It will address the promises and challenges of bilingualism and multilingualism in the child on the basis of recent research results from both linguistics and developmental psychology.
What Makes Us Human? An Existential Journey Amidst Crises
This course invites you to an existential odyssey into the human condition and politics. Are we truly different from animals and machines? What does it mean to "be yourself"? What's the difference between freedom and liberty? Should we pursue happiness? Why do we yield to fear and anxiety?
Students enroll in GOVT 3686.
What is China?
China is often thought of as being isolated from the outside world. It is imagined as existing in historic seclusion, and, following the establishment of the People's Republic, as pursuing a path of autarky. Such separation has then only been somewhat modified by the set of economic reforms that Deng Xiaoping first instituted in the late 1970s. In this lecture we will seek to turn such conventional wisdom on its head through examining "what China is" via a consideration of transnational currents within the country's development. However, the course's primary focus will not be upon the past, but rather the present and attempting to determine just where the point of intersection between China and the rest of the world is. Coming to terms with such an issue will provide those who enroll in the class with a deeper, more nuanced, understanding of China's rise and this trend's implications for the rest of the world. We will accomplish this task through a combination of surveying the existing literature on China and transnational politics, and considering new theoretical perspectives on both.(IR)
Students enroll in ASIAN 3395.
Computing in the Arts
Over the centuries, artists in a wide variety of media have employed many approaches to the creative process, ranging from the philosophical to the mechanical to the virtual. This course unravels some of the mysteries going on inside software used for art and music. It looks at ways of breaking things apart and sampling and ways of putting things together and resynthesizing, and explores ideas for creation. This course does not teach software packages for creating art and music. The course compl
Students enroll in CS 1610 or PSYCH 1650 or ENGRI 1610 or MUSIC 1465.
The World of Italian Jewry
The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest one in all of Europe, dating back to 200 BCE, but it is only a part of a complex and fascinating mosaic that is Italian Jewry. In this course we will examine the long Jewish presence in the Italian peninsula through the work of some of Italy's most eminent modern Jewish writers, as well as the writings of historians of Jewish Italy.
Students enroll in JWST 2720.
Systems Thinking and Mapping for Public Policy
At its core, systems thinking attempts to better align how we think things work with how the real world actually works. The real world works in systems—complex networks of many interacting variables. Often nonlinear, complex, and unpredictable, real-world systems seldom correspond with our desire for simplistic, hierarchical, and linear explanations. Systems thinking is the field of study that attempts to better understand how to think better about real-world systems, and the complex problems we face. The complex systems and "wicked problems" that are characteristic of the public, nonprofit and private sectors pose conceptual challenges when our mental models are out of alignment with the complexities, nonlinearities, unintended consequences, and multi-perspectival issues that leaders, managers, and policy makers face. Students need to develop deep understanding as well as useful proficiency with systems thinking to solve both everyday and wicked problems effectively.
Students enroll in PADM 1449.
Vinyasa Yoga
This course teaches the practice of Vinyasa Yoga. It explores postures flowing from one to the next (breath to movement) and also includes study of philosophy, meditation, breath-work, and alignment. Course Fee: $135.
Students enroll in PE 1429
Introduction to Philosophy
A general introduction to some of the main topics, texts, and methods of philosophy. Topics may include the existence of God, the nature of mind and its relation to the body, causation, free will, knowledge and skepticism, and justice and moral obligation. Readings may be drawn from the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophical literature.
Students enroll in PHIL 1100.
Middle East Politics
What explains authoritarian resilience in the Middle East? What are the causes and consequences of Islamist political attitudes and behavior? What is the historical legacy of colonialism and empire in the Middle East? This course will offer students the opportunity to discuss these and other questions related to the political, social, and economic development of the Middle East and North Africa.
Students enroll in GOVT 3313, JWST 3850, or NES 3850.
Fashion Computer-Aided Design
Introduces two major graphic software programs (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator) to develop original designs. Class activities and projects include textile design, technical flat design, digitized fashion illustration, and story board. Projects include both individual work and group work.
Students enroll in FSAD 1140.
Contemporary Moral Issues
An introduction to some of the main contemporary moral issues. Topics may, for example, include animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexual morality, genetic engineering, and questions of welfare and social justice.
Students enroll in PHIL 1450.
Conflict Resolution Certificate
Leadership Agility Certificate
In today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, leaders must adapt and rise to the challenges created by ever-changing circumstances. In this certificate program, you will develop the internal strengths and strategic skills needed to lead with agility. You will also work to improve your ability to influence both within your organization and externally to accomplish your vision. By the end of this series, you will have gained a new level of confidence to better impact your team and organization.
Differential Equations for Engineers
Introduction to ordinary and partial differential equations. Topics include first order equations (separable, linear, homogeneous, exact); mathematical modeling (e.g., population growth, terminal velocity); qualitative methods (slope fields, phase plots, equilibria, and stability); numerical methods; second order equations (method of undetermined coefficients, application to oscillations and resonance, boundary-value problems and eigenvalues); and Fourier series.
Students enroll in MATH 2930.
The Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
This is an introductory management course covering the strategic management of technology and innovation in established firms as well as startup organizations. This course is designed for students who may someday work in, consult for, and/or create firms whose primary product is fundamentally related to technology or innovation. The course typically includes both M.B.A. students and graduate students in science.
Students enroll in NBA 6650.
Are We Alone in the Universe?
This course surveys the possibilities for life in the universe and the search for it, against the backdrop of our modern understanding of the cosmos. It covers ideas about the origin of the universe and how structure arises, the formation of stars and planets, how life might have begun on planets, the evolution of life on the Earth, and the search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond.
Students enroll in ASTRO 1199.
Provides a broad introduction to the fundamentals of marketing. Explores the components of an organization's strategic marketing program, including how to price, promote, and distribute goods and services. Industry guest lectures and current marketing applications from various companies are presented and analyzed.
Enrollment limited to: non-AEM majors with sophomore standing or higher.
Students enroll in AEM 2400.
Pharmaceutical Management Certificate
This live, synchronous certificate program provides an exploration of the key management issues facing the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The perspective is global, with an emphasis on the U.S. as the largest and most profitable market.
Over the course of 5 weeks, Professor Nicholson with guide you through discussions on:
Rapid technological change and substantial investments in research and development (R&D) The role of biotechnology and genomics in transforming the industry A complex global marketplace where customers include governments and private health insurers as well as physicians, pharmacists, and individual patients Government regulation of every dimension of the business including the safety and efficacy of drugs, pricing, manufacturing, and marketing Continually evolving mergers, joint ventures, and alliances Global products and multinational firms with growing tension between the needs and ability to pay for different market segmentsThroughout your experience in this certificate program you will work on a project that follows the life cycle of a drug of your choosing.
Healthcare Operations Management Certificate
Supply Chain Strategy and Supermarket Simulation
The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the important concepts in supply chain management that any student of business (regardless of their current interests) should know to be an effective business manager in the future, and what students with interests other than business can benefit from knowing. Topics include design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply-chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand, and measuring performance globally.
Students enroll in AEM 3270
Introductory Fluid Mechanics
Topics include physical properties of fluids, hydrostatics, conservation laws using control volume analysis and using differential analysis, Bernoulli's equation, potential flows, simple viscous flows (solved with Navier-Stokes equations), dimensional analysis, pipe flows, boundary layers. Introduction to compressible flow.
Students enroll in MAE 3230.
ARCH 2101: Design III
Students develop an understanding of context and precedent in the construction of architectural form, and are introduced to contextual and programmatic densities in addition to circulatory, spatial, and organizational strategies in the design process.
Students enroll in ARCH 2101.
Financial Management Certificate
Python Programming for Data Analysis & Business Modeling
This course is an introduction to programming with Python for students aiming to enter the world of business analytics. Using business applied cases students will increase decision making efficiency and productivity through a detailed understanding of Python programming languages. Students will also learn how to use a range of Python libraries for data analytics such as NumPy, MatPlotLib, Seaborn, Pandas, and Scikit.
Students enroll in AEM 2840.
Environmental Justice
Within the U.S. and globally, there continue to be stark racial and economic differences in 1) the distribution of environmental harms and goods and 2) the determination of who meaningfully participates in environmental decision-making processes. This course examines how environmental processes and policies interact with race and class to differentially affect people's exposure to environmental harms and their ability to participate in environmental decision-making. We will review the history of the environmental justice movement in the U.S. and use an environmental justice framework to examine various case studies and responses to environmental injustice.Through these examinations, students will enhance their ability to analyze the impact of environmental work on vulnerable communities and improve their ability to work with diverse social groups in the U.S.
Students enroll in NTRES 2000.
Good Manufacturing Practices for Food
Manufacturing Practices for food (GMP) course is designed to review the requirements of Part 117 – Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food in Title 21 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. As part of the FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), several revisions were made to the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation to update and clarify it. The regulation outlines the basic sanitary controls that are required for all food processing plants, wholesale or distribution firms, and warehouses or food storage facilities that handle, store or process FDA regulated food. The course provides the text of each section of this regulation along with an explanation of its intent, examples and strategies for compliance with these requirements, and resources for additional information.
Social Cognition
What are the causes and consequences of our own and other's judgments, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors? This course introduces students to social cognition, which is a research perspective that uses both cognitive and social psychological theories and methodologies to explain such social phenomena.
Students enroll in PSYCH 3800.
Introduction to Architecture: Design Studio
This course is only offered in the Summer Session. A foundation course designed to introduce students to ideas, principles, and methods of solving architectural problems through rigorous process and elaborate visual communication. A sequence of design exercises culminates in a Course project, allowing students to explore and grasp the architectural concepts of space, form and structure. Instruction is highly personalized to each student
Students enroll in ARCH 1110.
Chemical Concepts (Prefreshman)
Chem 1002 is an analytical problem-solving lab that accompanies CHEM 1001. Students will develop the mathematical problem solving skills needed for success in chemistry classes.
Students enroll in CHEM 1002.
Oral Communication
The course focuses on face-to-face, public communication, but the principles and practices addressed transfer to all purposeful communication situations. While many assume a good speech rests in how well it is delivered, students will learn that a good speech is equally dependent on the development, structure, and integrity of one's ideas. The objectives of the course are for students to speak effectively and ethically, and listen critically.
Students enroll in COMM 2010.
Digital Marketing 360 Certificate
As the digital marketing landscape continues to grow and evolve, it can be challenging to prepare to pivot your strategies to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
From AI, to data privacy, to influencer marketing, the Digital Marketing 360 certificate program is designed to help you understand — and rise to — the challenges facing modern marketers. Throughout the courses, you'll create, enhance, and implement today's most effective digital marketing practices. You'll learn how to look across marketing channels and platforms to identify opportunities for growth; create a social media strategy that will allow you to achieve your marketing objectives and goals; and, importantly, measure the success of your marketing efforts through analytics. Whether you're looking to enter the field of digital marketing or simply gain more formal training, this certificate program will provide you with the leading-edge tools you need to stay ahead and drive top performance.
Arab for Hebrew Speakers
This course is designed for students who are proficient in Hebrew and would like to cover the equivalent of one academic year of Arabic in half the time, that is, in one semester. Hebrew and Arabic, being members of the Semitic language family, share much of their grammatical structures and vocabulary. Arabic grammatical structures that are completely foreign to the speaker of an Indo-European language, like English, are almost identical in the two languages. These include verb conjugations, noun possession, the construct state, root and pattern morphology, and many more. In terms of vocabulary, hundreds of basic words of the type that a first-year language student would learn, like the numbers, days of the week, names of the parts of the body, words referring to family members, and natural phenomena can easily be related from one language to the other. This is a language, not a comparative linguistics, course. Emphasis is on real communication and on developing proficiency in the language by using it in meaningful contexts rather than on the study of grammar.
Students enroll in ARAB 1287.
Heat Transfer
Topics include the following: steady and unsteady heat conduction; forced and free convection; external and internal flows; radiation heat transfer; and heat exchangers.
Students enroll in MAE 3240.
Introduction to American Government and Politics
A policy-centered approach to the study of government in the American experience. Considers the American Founding and how it influenced the structure of government; how national institutions operate in shaping law and public policy; who has a voice in American politics and why some are more influential than others; and how existing public policies themselves influence social, economic, and political power. Students will gain an introductory knowledge of the founding principles and structure o
Students enroll in AMST 1115 or GOVT 1111.
Nutrition and Healthy Living Certificate
Public Health Communications
This course will focus on the role communication (written, oral, visual, nonverbal) plays in advancing public health practice, policy and outcomes. This course will introduce students to key concepts and provide a foundation for further exploration and depth. Over the term, we will incorporate theory, best practices, examples, cultural considerations, various media/platforms and skill development. We will address the basics of relevant communication theory, including theories of behavior change, and the role health literacy plays in advancing public health and health equity. With this foundation, students will gain appreciation for communication's influence on public health and determinants at individual and population levels. Students will assess a range of public health communication efforts and their impacts on audiences, evaluate audience needs, and design a public health communication product tailored to an audience for a specific goal.
Students enroll in VTPMD 6191.
Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Public sector unions are vitally important to protect and defend because they account for the largest percentage of the unionized workforce. This online course is designed to acquaint labor relations professionals, union members, union stewards and officers with a basic understanding of public sector labor relations. A multi-state/locality approach will be utilized to provide students with an overview of the state of public sector unions nationwide.
Key Topics
The role of politics in the public sector collective bargaining process The legal rights and obligations of public employers, public employees and public employee organizations Economic and non-economic issues addressed in public sector collective bargaining The public sector collective bargaining process The administration of the grievance process in public sector collective bargaining agreements Issues relating to contemporary public sector labor relationsApproach and Features This is an 11-week online course. Each week (Monday) the instructor will post a narrated PowerPoint presentation along with other instructional information. Assignments will be due by Saturday.
There will be a research assignment, active use of a discussion board, case studies and a negotiations activity.
Benefits to You and Your Organization The attacks against public sector unionism are escalating. Several state legislatures are considering abolishing public sector bargaining and the Supreme Court is reviewing the constitutionality of agency shop fees. Leaders and members of local unions need skills to build strong unions to combat these attacks.
This course is a part of the Cornell ILR Online Labor Studies Program and meets the Labor Law core requirement necessary to earn a Certificate of Labor Studies. Upon completion you will earn 3.0 credits that can be used towards a Certificate of Labor Studies.
Introduction to Personality
A shared assumption among personality psychologists is that each person possesses a personality–i.e., characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving–that uniquely distinguishes him or her from other people. Each individual's personality is the culmination of his or her genetic makeup, biology, early life experiences, learning and culture. In this undergraduate-level course, we will review the major theories and research paradigms (e.g., trait, biological, cognitive) of modern-day personality psychology. The course will emphasize contemporary research, theory, and methodology, as well as provide a review of historical accounts that have significantly contributed to current conceptualizations.
Students enroll in PSYCH 2750 or HD 2600.
Comparative Corruption
Corruption, and the perception of corruption, pervades many aspects of society and has become a source of political protest around the world. This course focuses on the similarities and differences between forms, causes, and effects of corruption in various environments.
Students enroll in SOC 3680 or GOVT 3683.
ARCH 5104: Design Xa
A structured studio for those needing to take an alternative to design thesis. This course operates within one of advanced option design studios.
Students enroll in ARCH 5104.
eBird Essentials
eBird Essentials
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Explore how eBird can help spark new birding adventures.
Get up to speed on how the largest biological citizen-science program in the world can help you with your birding. The eBird community gathers more than 100 million bird sightings each year from people like you. Providing a powerful tool for motivated bird enthusiasts everywhere, eBird helps you find more birds and keep track of your sightings. Collectively, these sightings are now empowering a global scientific community and helping answer pressing conservation questions. Full of video tutorials, this course will get you ready to confidently store and share your sightings with eBird.
Completion Time:3 hrs estimated
Optional CEU Credits:0.3
Coastal Environmental Justice
This course examines the tenets of Environmental Justice (EJ) with focus on coastal communities around the world. Students will receive an orientation to the history of EJ and define coastal communities, drawing upon global case studies. We will touch on traditional EJ concerns, including climate change, pollution, resource loss, and restricted access to information and representation. We'll discuss steps that are being taken to counter the emerging crises, drawing from solutions across the policy spectrum, from forced relocation to paying reparations. Students will learn the basic principles and history of EJ, be able to describe the issues faced by coastal residents, understand how climate change affects nearshore habitats and waterfront communities, and have investigated and presented a way forward to the rest of the class.
Students enroll in BIOSM 2025.
Accounting Certificate
Accounting is one of today's fast-growing professions, with numerous career path options. This certificate program will help you establish an in-depth understanding of foundational accounting principles and how to apply them in practice.
In the courses, you will construct and interpret accounts of revenue, accounts receivable, inventory, assets, long-term debt, and equity. You will have the opportunity to examine the rules for financial statements and learn how the field of financial accounting has evolved over time to meet the needs of businesses. This understanding of core financial accounting principles will enable you to independently analyze an organization's financial standing and viability as well as understand when organizations are using gaps in accounting rules to their financial advantage.
Upon completion of the program, you will be able to converse confidently in the language of finance and present a company's financial performance to internal stakeholders as well as investors, creditors, suppliers, and customers. This knowledge will help you inform the strategic decision-making process using concise and relevant financial data appropriate to your audience in any industry.
Please note this program references US Financial Accounting guidelines. As such, all forms may not be exact for those who reside or conduct business outside the United States, however the principles remain the same.
Sociology of Disasters
Disasters are usually sudden events that result in catastrophic loss of life and/or property. Words like "disorder," "chaos," and "panic" are often used to describe social phenomena in these situations – descriptions that (as you will learn) belie the highly socially structured nature of disaster-related behavior and processes. This course takes a closer look at disaster situations using a sociological lens.
Students enroll in SOC 3650.
The Video Essay
This course examines the video essay and its corresponding or emerging forms in videographic criticism, the essay film, and written essays, including personal narrative, creative nonfiction, and hybrid texts. Students explore source material and develop media competencies that encompass video, sound, image and text in order to critically analyze content that explores dimensions of culture. In addition, students collaborate on lo-fi and more developed video projects that explore the formal dimensions of narrative and criticism. While maintaining a focus on the video essay as a form of critique, students address broader concerns about how video essays reflect their role as producers and consumers of media forms.
Students enroll in PAM 3501.
Investigative Biology Laboratory
Designed for biology majors to provide lab experience with emphasis on processes of scientific investigations and to promote communication, literacy and collaboration in science. Students gain expertise in methods including instrumentation used by biologists to construct new knowledge. Lab topics include genetics, evolution, ecology, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
Students enroll in BIOG 1500.
Global Business Strategy
This course has three integrated objectives: First, to give you a basic grounding in global business, so that you can become capable of understanding and analyzing events and trends in the global business environment and their impact on managerial decision making; Second, to help you understand the analytical frameworks on strategy formulation and implementation in an international context; And third, through a series of concrete case discussions and a local product internationalization project, the course aims at developing your practical skills in applying the tools of global strategic analysis in concrete business situations. Its ultimate goal is to help you become better prepared to serve in and lead business organizations in today's globalized world.
Students enroll in AEM 3991 or NBA 5991.
Intraoral Radiology in the Dog Certificate
In this 4.5-hour online course we comprehensively cover intraoral radiography in the dog. Our primary objective is to provide the learner with the skills and knowledge to obtain diagnostic images and to be able to interpret them efficiently and accurately in the clinical setting. We will cover the equipment required to take intraoral radiographs, review the normal radiographic anatomy, provide detailed explanations on how to obtain each projection, and how to correct common mistakes. The lessons will ultimately help the participant to systematically interpret pathological processes using real clinical cases. This course is composed of eight lessons covering understanding the benefits of intraoral radiology, radiographic equipment, normal radiographic anatomy refresher, principles of intraoral radiology, obtaining intraoral radiographs: step by step, troubleshooting common mistakes, orienting intraoral radiographs – labial mounting, and interpreting intraoral radiographs.
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Art Behind Bars: The Creativity Inside Prisons
This class explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country. The course uses video's, archival material, reading material and in-person or Zoom interviews to investigate how and why art is taught in prisons. The class will also look at art produced by incarcerated artists as well as art by those who are still practicing after going home. Students will also use internet resources to present artists creating music, dance, theatre, painting and writing while incarcerated.
Students enroll in PMA 2642.
Introduction to Judaism
This course is an introduction to Jewish identities, values, and practices from the ancient to modern era. Organized thematically, it examines Judaism as a religious phenomenon, with a particular emphasis on its cultural and textual diversity across three millennia. Themes covered include creation, Sabbath, prayer, Jerusalem, pious customs, magic, reincarnation, revelation, among others. Throughout the semester students perform close readings of a wide selection of Jewish texts from the Bible, Talmud, kabbalah (mysticism), philosophy, liturgy, and modern Jewish thought. In what ways are these various traditions of Judaism interrelated and/or in tension with one another? In the face of the Jewish history's tremendous diversity, what is it that has unified Judaism and the Jewish people over the centuries? By exploring these types of questions, this course examines the appropriateness of defining Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a civilization, and/or a culture. Readings include introductory-level textbooks and essays, as well as a range of primary source materials in translation.
Students enroll in JWST 2644 or NES 2644.
Print Media: Introduction to Print Media
This is an inclusive course that offers an expanded study of traditional printmaking processes through experimental print media. Print media is a critical practice grounded in the history of all printed matter and the printed form as a social medium. Students will participate in a comprehensive range of technical and aesthetic approaches centered in a range of strategies including the art work as multiple, digital and cultural production. These issues of critical discourse will challenge traditi
Students enroll in ART 2301.
Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms
Develops techniques used in the design and analysis of algorithms, with an emphasis on problems arising in computing applications. Example applications are drawn from systems and networks, artificial intelligence, computer vision, data mining, and computational biology. This course covers four major algorithm design techniques (greedy algorithms, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and network flow), undecidability and NP-completeness, and algorithmic techniques for intractable problems (including identification of structured special cases , approximation algorithms, local search heuristics, and online algorithms).
Students enroll in CS 4820.
Growth Marketing Certificate
As digital transformation and AI reshape every industry and function, marketers everywhere are racing to redefine their marketing approach. Traditional, tried-and-true marketing methods tend to focus on the top of the funnel and measure success by how many new customers are brought in. But successful marketing today is no longer about looking at growth in a vacuum; it is about using data-driven insights across the entire funnel to not only acquire new customers, but to engage them, retain them, and ultimately turn them into brand loyalists.
In this certificate program, you will discover practical ways to drive your entire customer life cycle. You will learn how to develop a growth marketing mindset, using key insights to generate compounding returns over time. You will start by assessing your organization's current marketing activities and create a plan to optimize them using the key concepts from AI and digital marketing to formulate a digital strategy. You will then develop your own digital marketing plans for both paid and owned media. In the final course, you'll have the opportunity to create a growth marketing strategy to supercharge the 4Ps of your marketing engine.
Upon completing the program, you will have developed the skills and frameworks needed to think like a growth marketer and create a sustainable marketing strategy that will ultimately generate "sticky" customers for years to come.
Risk Management in Emerging Markets
In an increasingly globalizing world, more and more companies are going abroad to pursue their major business objectives. What are the risks encountered by MNCs in their international business operations? How to evaluate, approach and manage these risks? This course aims to provide a general understanding of the field of global risk analysis and management.
Students enroll in AEM 3070 or NBA 5911.
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
The pricing processes in a private enterprise economy are analyzed under varying competitive conditions, and their role in the allocation of resources and the functional distribution of national income is considered.
Students enroll in ECON 3030.
Argumentation and Debate
Students learn the principles of argumentation and debate. Topics emphasize Internet database research, synthesis of collected data, policy analysis of evidentiary quality, refutation of counter claims, identification of logical fallacies, risk evaluation, framing of issues, and coherent storytelling. Prepares students to work with a great range of opinion and evidence. Emphasizes different viewpoints, including those of different cultures. Assumptions are interrogated.
Students enroll in ILRLR 2300.
Nutrition and Disease
Principles of nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, pathology, and pharmacology are combined to understand disease risk, prevention, progression, and management. Interactive lectures provide opportunities for the class to engage in the discussion of original research articles on topics of high current interest in the area of nutrition and health. Weekly in-class group case studies allow for practice of application of knowledge to clinical cases.
Students enroll in NS 4410.
Ethics in New Media, Technology, and Communication
This course examines moral and ethical issues in communication, new media, and technology. Using theories and research in moral philosophy and psychology, we examine how people perceive and reason about ethical issues presented by media and technology, and how moral action is influenced by cognitive, emotional, and ethical belief systems. Issues of autonomy, transparency, harm, privacy, manipulation, justice, democracy, equality, and care are discussed.
Students enroll in COMM 4300 or INFO 4301
Research and Information Literacy
This course will provide an introduction to doing academic research in college. Students will learn to critically analyze sources found on the web and make distinctions between scholarly and non-scholarly materials. Students will identify a topic and learn search strategies and methods for finding materials in various formats, using information databases such as the library catalog, and print and electronic sources.
Students enroll in HE 1006.
Introduction to Computing Using Python
Programming and problem solving using Python. Emphasizes principles of software development, style, and testing. Topics include procedures and functions, iteration, recusion, arrays and vectors, strings, an operational model of procedure and function calls, algorithms, exceptions, object-oriented programming, and GUIs (graphical user interfaces). Weekly labs provide guided practice on the computer, with staff present to help. Assignments use graphics and GUIs to help develop fluency and understa
Students enroll in CS 1110.
An Introduction to Architecture: Lectures
Survey course that covers the many facets of architecture: history, design principles, preservations, landscape architecture, building technology, and cultural factors. Led by Department faculty, the course format comprises lectures, demonstrations and discussions, films screenings, and virtual tours of museum collections and important works of architecture. Frequent guest lecturers share their specific expertise.
Students enroll in ARCH 1300.
Corporate Communication Certificate
Often reporting to a company's chief executives, corporate communications professionals play a critical role in how organizations are perceived among both internal and external audiences. Their function encompasses media and public relations, internal employee communications, and crisis communications — which are becoming more essential than ever to manage in today's age of social media wildfire.
Whether you need to prepare to communicate a significant change initiative within your organization, work through a media crisis, or develop key messages to deliver to company stakeholders, this customizable certificate program will prepare you to build a career in the increasingly important function of corporate communications.
Microbiology of Human Contagious Diseases
This course provides an introduction to the microbiology of microbial diseases. The primary focus is on molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis, including detection of the host environment, binding of pathogenic microbes to host cell surfaces and their invasion of host cells and tissues, and the delivery and functions of microbial toxins. It will include host defenses and microbial countermeasures against these defenses.
Students enroll in BIOMI 2600.
Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training Certificate
This Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training curriculum has been specifically designed to provide a foundation of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) knowledge that includes emphasis on co-management of food safety and environmental management goals, while outlining the requirements in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule. Though the development of this curriculum was focused on small farms, the need to understand and reduce microbial risks during the production of fruits and vegetables should be important to every grower. The farming environment naturally has many microbial risks, so to protect the fruits and vegetables that are grown and packed on the farm, every grower needs to know how to identify and reduce risks. In addition, buyer demand for food safety practices, and the first ever regulation of fresh produce outlined in the FSMA Produce Safety Rule, make knowledge about produce safety important to overall farm viability.
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Introduction to Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
This will be a large introductory-level course designed to be of value and appealing to the broad Cornell undergraduate student body. It will provide an introduction to the concepts of conflict, negotiations, and conflict resolution. The course will examine negotiations and conflict resolution in a range of different contexts, such as labor and employment, commercial, educational, family, environmental and community conflicts. The course will be taught in a large lecture format, but will also feature extensive student participation in simulation exercises.
Students enroll in ILRLR 2040.
Green Cities: Creating the Living City
This course examines the history and future of the ecological city and the technological and social forces that continue to shape it. Metropolitan transformation is explored in conjunction with alternative transportation, renewable energy, green infrastructure, recycling and resource management, and sustainable economics as means toward advancing cities to become the basis of an ecologically sound and socially just society.
Students enroll in NTRES 2470.
Financial Accounting Principles
This introduction to financial accounting covers the preparation of financial statements, from transactional analysis through journal entries to financial statement presentation. We will do in-depth analysis of receivables and payables, revenue and expenses, and major balance sheet items, such as inventory, investments, long term bonds, capital stock, and tangible and intangible assets. We will study preparation of the statement of cash flows using both the direct and indirect methods. Along the way we will introduce some of the concepts of financial statement analysis. We will also discuss ethics in accounting and business. Students will work in teams for some of the time. After successful completion of this course you will be prepared to take an intermediate accounting course.
Students enroll in HADM 2230.
General Chemistry
Covers fundamental chemical principles, with considerable attention given to the quantitative aspects and techniques important for further work in chemistry. Main topics include chemical transformations and equations, periodic trends of the elements, electronic structure of atoms, chemical bonding, and the collective behavior of molecules. Note: Engineering students should take CHEM 2090 and cannot take CHEM 2070 without written permission from the Chemistry Office of Undergraduate Studies
Students enroll in CHEM 2070.
CHEM 2080 is a continuation of CHEM 2070. Covers fundamental chemical principles, with considerable attention given to the quantitative aspects and techniques important for further work in chemistry.
Students enroll in CHEM 2080.
Digital Marketing Certificate
Botanical Illustration series
The Horticulture Section of Cornell's School of Integrative Plant Science offers three online courses in Botanical Illustration:
Botanical Illustration I: Basic Drawing Techniques Botanical Illustration II: Working with watercolor Botanical Illustration III: Advanced TechniquesBasic Drawing Techniques is a six-week online course for beginners (seven including the introductory week) and teaches you how to use plants as the subject of art with easy approaches and many visual examples.
A physical distance from other students allows you to express yourself c